rn patch 45 available soon

[Stan Barber]

Patch 45 for rn will be available in the next four weeks. It is mostly bug
fixes. They are listed below. You will be able to pick up the patch from
USENET's comp.sources.bugs and news.software.b groups. It will be available
from the archive-server at bcm.tmc.edu and via anonymous ftp from bcm.tmc.edu.

Additionally, the complete rn kit fully patched is also available from 
lib.tmc.edu.

This kit will not address some System V issues and some suggested enhancements.
I have these in the queue as well, but they will be released (if possible) in
a furture patch. The System V issues will be in the next patch kit.

Here are the bugs/problems addressed in patch 45.


The copy of the active file in the /tmp directory was not removed on exit.
    Reported by nagel at ics.uci.edu, eggert at twinsun.com (Paul Eggert),
    Felix Lee <flee at shire.cs.psu.edu> and others.

Configure could not determine when it was on a 386i.
    Reported by jim at eda.com and isaak!luik at uunet.uu.net.

The size of ACT_POS has been changed from short to long to cope with the ever
increasing size of the active file.
    Reported by jthomp at wintermute.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson),  Antti Louko
    <alo at kampi.hut.fi>, and eps at cs.SFSU.EDU.

Cancel messages were failing because the user id of the news administrator
was never being determined correctly. 
    Reported by Chip Rosenthal <chip at chinacat.lonestar.org>

Added support for the active file flags in CNEWS. Some might consider this an
enhancement, others a bug....I don't intend to argue.
    Reported by tale at turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)

Sed on some systems takes only 9 wfiles. System V sed and BSD sed don't
support the exact same syntax. newsetup and newsgroups have been changed to
accomodate these problems.
    Reported by evanh at sco.com (Evan A.C. Hunt), and eggert at twinsun.com.

Configure would not work right under System V in determining if termio
is supposed to be used or not.
    Reported by many many people.

If a LIST command fails because of a bad network connection, rn would sometimes
continue to operate with the truncated active file and declare groups invalid.
This is now fixed.
    Reported by stewart at netxcom.iad-nxe.global-mis.dhl.com (John Stewart)

Reworked signal handling code to better handle signals (I hope!).
    Reported by Adri Verhoef <rivm!a3 at relay.eu.net>