Aduke.1430
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!trt
Tue Dec  1 22:32:12 1981
Re: cwruecmp.22: news bug
Old versions of A news have a bug in "news -s ..." that
permits creation of a .uindex line which is too long.
The easy "fix" is to increase BUFLEN (it is 250 at duke),
but subscr.c has to be changed to really prevent the problem.
There is probably a line: 'if (strlen(bfr) >= BUFLEN) xerror("...");'
which could be changed to "... >= BUFLEN-30 ....".

This should not cause loss of news, you just will not be able to read it.

I agree a BUFLEN of 100 is too small.
But there were not all that many newsgroups at first.
		Tom Truscott (duke!trt)

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