B news 2.11 patch 18 considered harmful

[Gary S. Trujillo]

In article <392 at gnosys.UUCP> gst at gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:

> ...I naively patched my sources, which were at patchlevel 17, and got
> a very corrupted situation in my /usr/spool/news/* directories...
> the sort of thing I found:

Before anyone asks, I thought I should say that I did follow the instructions
below:

|	make update now checks to see if you have defined LINES large
|		enough to support your existing active file
|
|Fix:
|	cd src and make install;make update
|
|	YOU MUST "make update" or your active file will be in the wrong
|	format
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Gary S. Trujillo			      gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts		      {wjh12,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst