Problem with rn

[Don McCormick]

I have compiled and installed rn on our 4D/220 machine as a news client
to a SUN file server.

When the rn command is run it takes up to 25 seconds before any newsgroup
can be read (approx 6 seconds on BSD machines), this can be quite anoying
when using the rn -c command in a .login file as it slows down the login
process.

Reading of news articles using rn is not a problem, but if you try to
reply to an article or save an article on some occasions you can drop
out of rn with the error.

	"Unexpected close of server socket"

I have compiled rn and inews using the flag -D_BSD_COMPAT but still get the
same intermittent problem.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?


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