On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, I wrote:
DG> However, the newsx pull from central to new-local only works
DG> some of the time. There are certain articles which just hang
DG> in transfer and the connection is reset at the central end.
DG> Using --list and similar also seem to hang without result.
And you replied:
EK> There is a bug in newsx that causes problems with articles that
EK> contain ASCII NULs. Perhaps that is the trouble you are seeing?
EK> When moving very large amounts of news, it you will see NULs with
EK> a certain probability.
EK> I have been working on a fix for it - it is a bit tricky to get a
EK> solution that is 100% portable. And then the summer holiday came
EK> in and interrupted ;-(
EK> I should have the fix ready real soon now. Which Unix are you
EK> running, BTW?
We're running HPUX 10.20 (with patches up to the big bundle from
the end of last year) but we're not 100% up to date :-(
Cheers
Duncan
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