Acbosgd.154
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Sun Nov 22 13:39:02 1981
fix to uucp
This file contains diffs to uucp needed to run netnews over a uucp link.
Basically, they add two new options to uux: -n, which means "don't send
back any confirmation message that the command ran", and -z, which means
"only send back a message if something went wrong (nonzero exit status)"
It turns out that if you don't add these, lots of very annoying mail gets
sent to anyone who posts an article.  Even if your neighbor doesn't have
the -n and -z options, it won't hurt anything.  But to get rid of your
annoying messages, you have to have all your USENET/UUCP neighbors install
this code.

--- uucp.h
116a117,118
> #define X_NONOTI	'N'
> #define X_NONZERO	'Z'
--- uux.c
51a51,52
> 	int nonoti = 0;
> 	int nonzero = 0;
71a73,78
> 		case 'n':
> 			nonoti = 1;
> 			break;
> 		case 'z':
> 			nonzero = 1;
> 			break;
102a110,114
> 	if (nonoti)
> 		fprintf(fprx,"%c\n", X_NONOTI);
> 	if (nonzero)
> 		fprintf(fprx,"%c\n", X_NONZERO);
>
--- uuxqt.c
25a26,27
> 	"rnews",
27a30,31
> int notiok = 1;
> int nonzero = 0;
118a123,128
> 			case X_NONOTI:
> 				notiok = 0;
> 				break;
> 			case X_NONZERO:
> 				nonzero = 1;
> 				break;
179c189,190
 		  && strcmp(xcmd, "mail") != SAME
> 		  && notiok && (!nonzero || (nonzero && ret != 0)))
181c192
 		else if (ret != 0 && strcmp(xcmd, "rmail") == SAME) {

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 gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
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