Unoffical Patch #17 (larry@garfield.cs.mun.ca Nov 19, 1991) - core dump due to selecting last_article+1 on screen - core dump due to consolidating (closing) last subject in a group under certain circumstances. - selecting consolidated articles with = command did not highlight the selected consolidated articles correctly. - fixed unconditional CLEAR TO END OF LINE that erased the next line on some terminals. Unofficial Patch #18 (larry@garfield.cs.mun.ca; Dec 1, 1991) - possible core dump/strange behavior when using '=' command to return to the menu from article reading mode. (Reported by Olaf Schlueter [olaf@oski.toppoint.de]) - articles marked as A_LEAVE_NEXT ('=') are not given any special attention in consolidated menu mode. I considered this incorrect (I leave stuff around all the time :) and modified nn's behavior to notice them. - unable to de-select an auto-selected subject when using consolidated-menu mode. Patch #17 and #18 made official (peter@DIALix.oz.au) Patch #19 (peter@DIALix.oz.au; 28 Nov 92) Title: Reduction in startup time From: Geoff Collyer The initial startup time can be cut in half. Title: A/UX 3.0 support From: Jim Jagielski Support for Apple A/UX 3.0, originally by Alexis Rosen Title: NeXT-2.2 support From: Lele Gaifax Title: Misc "static" function declarations corrected in prototypes. From: Lele Gaifax Title: NNTP name canolicalization in /usr/lib/nntp_server vs gethostname() From: Mark R. Levinson The code now converts the name from nntp_server to the official name before comparing it to the gethostname() result. This is useful if nntp_server points to an alias (ie: news.your.domain.name) Title: Count lines if no "Lines:" field present. From: Paul Eggert and Luc Rooijakkers If there is no "Lines:" field, NN will count them. Title: Correct line counting algorithm conflict with NNTP and folders/digests. From: Peter Wemm The code would attempt to fetch a sub-article from a folder or digest from the NNTP server - which is clearly not possible... Title: Make line counting optional From: Peter Wemm #define DONT_COUNT_LINES option to config - it is undesirable to fetch all articles from a remote NNTP server just to display a line count on the menu. Title: print a "??" instead of "-1" for lines count in some display modes From: J. Porter Clark If you change the "layout", it is possible for NN to display a -1 in the lines count field. Title: Timezone misalculations From: Paul Eggert NN mishandled non-GMT timezones in sorting resulting in articles being presented out of order. Title: NNGRAB speedups From: Paul Eggert nngrab generated unnecessary files and processes (especially on BSD'ish machines that do not have a built-in "[" in the shell Title: NN wastes time seeking to find the file size From: Paul Eggert Make NN count bytes as they are read rather than seeking all over the place. Title: Correct NN's header parser to RFC compliant behavior From: Paul Eggert NN gets confused on some variations of legitimate header continuation lines. Title: Remove defunct comp.ai.neural-nets digest special handling From: Paul Eggert The comp.ai.neural-nets digests are now in standard form. Title: Improve ":decode" to recognize more formats From: Mark Rawling Fix for fault in the chtbl code Title: Add a "ignore-formfeed" variable From: Romain King Special request: display "^L" instead of a page break. Not on be default. Title: Fix that darn "NO DIRECTORY (ok)" message that nnmaster is so fond of. From: Steve Simmons If nnmaster is going to complain about a missing directory, at least say which one it is.... Title: get aux script to clean up common editor backup files From: Minh Tran-Le Emacs makes file~ backups, some make file.bak, etc. Try and clean up a few of them after launching an editor. Title: make aux script generate control messages that INN will accept. From: Peter Wemm INN's inews is pretty fussy in what it will accept.. Title: Resolve conflict NN with INN on SVR4/386 From: Peter Wemm SVR4/386 has an "interesting" feature: You can write to a file with mmap() **without** updating the timestamps.... INN uses this for the active file, nnmaster now has a "-U" switch to force an unconditional scan of the active file after the timeout, rather than if the timestamps changed. Title: VMS ANU-NEWS compatability From: Matt Heffron VMS ANU-NEWS's NNTP returns a different error code on no-such-article Title: Log group that generated a nntp error From: Matt Heffron If a NNTP error is generated, log the group that caused it. Title: Support terminals without clr_eol capability From: Luc Rooijakkers Some ancient terminals cannot clear to end-of-line. Simulate it by outputting spaces. This means that printf/puts/putchar/stdout can no longer be used in visual mode, because term.c has to keep track of the cursor position. Use the new tprintf/tputc instead (but only from files that are always linked with term.o). A list of the files that may do printf/puts/putchar/stdout is in `noterm'. Title: Miscellaneous cleanup of term.c From: Luc Rooijakkers Use tputs correctly unless BROKEN_TPUTS is #defined (UNISYS?) Title: Allow backslash to escape semicolons in extra headers From: Luc Rooijakkers This is necessary to let the user add a MIME Content-Type header via the news-header or mail-header variables. Title: Fixed annoying cursor position during some messages From: Luc Rooijakkers Don't reposition the cursor to the prompt line after a message if the message has overwritten the prompt. Title: Fixed invisible error messages From: Luc Rooijakkers If terminal has a separate `visual mode' screen, printf/nn_exit sequences don't work. Replaced user_error by nn_exitmsg which has the exit status as additional first argument, and replaced the printf/nn_exit sequences by calls to nn_exitmsg Title: Added charset variable and 8-bit checking for posts From: Luc Rooijakkers The new charset variable can be set to the character set of the terminal. It also determines the default value of the data-bits variable. If a message is posted whose body contains 8-bit characters and charset is not set to "unknown", nn will add MIME-Version and Content-XXX headers indicating its character set. Such messages cannot be posted if the current character set is a 7-bit set. To obtain the previous behaviour, do `set charset unknown'. Title: Cleaned fill/nofill use in nn.1.* files From: Luc Rooijakkers Lots of examples in the manual were being filled by *roff. Title: Sped up aux.sh and made it more portable From: Luc Rooijakkers Using case instead of if is faster on shells that don't have if Title: Preview mode and menu.c From: Steven Grimm The symptom: previewing (usually via auto-preview-mode) an article on the next-to-last page of a group menu then going to the last page of the menu caused nn to dump core if the previewed article had a greater article number than the last article on the last screen. For example, viewing article 'h' would cause the problem if the last screen only went up to 'e'. Title: Correct a small over-optimization in term.c From: Luc Rooijakkers My term.c contained one cursor position update too many, causing things to go wrong sometimes. Title: DecStation/Ultrix 4.2 support From: "stolen" from Toivo Pedaste my Peter Wemm. conf/m-dec3100.h for mips machines running Ultrix. Title: Misc cleanups of bad code From: Paul Eggert The code is loaded with functions that return no value, etc. This is a start at fixing some of the more serious faults. Title: Macro to call metamail From: mikew@kpc.com A simple example macro for passing MIME articles to metamail Title: Bug in folder code procuces core dump. From: Stefan Schwarz Title: rfmail support From: Bo Kullmar Title: Clean up code part 2 From: Peter Wemm Continued on from what Paul Eggert started... AARRGGHH!! It's a mess! Title: Update help screens From: Peter Wemm As suggested by Bill Wohler , sort out the help pages to "clarify" the differences between a few commands, and to add the "(" and ")" keys.. [darn.. It's a tight fit in there.] Title: Domain/OS fixes and others From: Michael T Pins 1> Makes nnmaster run much happier on HP/Apollo's running Domain/OS 2> Allows nn to compile on variants of HP-UX, among others, that it won't compile on otherwise. Title: aux.sh fixes From: Peter Wemm , bug reports from many... The changes to aux.sh to use "here documents" broke a lot of /bin/sh's Hack them out of the code, as not everybody has ksh. Title: SunOS 4.1 supports window siziing From: Paul Eggert Add a change to s-sunos4-0.h Title: Add support for PCS Cadmus with MIPS cpu From: Peter Pichol ) Create m-pcs.h Title: Add support for DEC Alpha's running OSF/1 From: Mike Wexler Create m-alpha.h and s-osf1.h Title: A way to read even less news! From: Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk It has been an old desire (viz. the FAQ) to be able to skip followups to subjects, one did not care to read. The following two variables implement a way to omit these followups, plus a way to auto-select the articles that you are most likely to be interested in, namely followups to articles that you have already read, or followups to articles you have posted yourself. The killing of uninteresting followups is done without entries in the kill file. The thread is killed if the root article of the thread is a followup itself, and the subject is not selected. The default of this patch to nn is no changed behaviour. Two new variables are introduced, can be set in the .nn/init file: ignore-re (boolean, default false) If set, articles with subjects already seen in a previous invocation of nn or another newsreader - and not auto-selected - are automatically killed. auto-select-rw (boolean, default false) If set, a subject of an article read or posted is automatically used for subsequent auto-selecting (if not already selected). Title: Fixes for non ANSI SunOS cc From: Paul Eggert NN 6.4.19gamma's term.c contains a cast that assumes that the compiler is an ANSI C compiler. This doesn't work in K&R compilers (e.g. SunOS 4.1.2 with bundled cc). Title: void vs int mixups in return values From: Paul Eggert Here's a patch to NN 6.4.19gamma's term.c that fixes a problem where it returns a value in a void function. Title: After you `:set record xxx', `:set' misdisplays mail-record From: Paul Eggert The :set listing were incorrectly displaying mail-record and news-record as always unset. Title: Improvement/bug fix to nn: archiving full articles using NNTP From: Fred Hucht If you set nnmaster to archive articles while in NNTP mode, it only archived the headers... Title: Add a flag to show Originator From: Jim Jagielski Add's support for 'J' in news-header to display the "Originator:" Title: Catch short term error conditions to prevent nnmaster aborting. From: J.P.M. van der Jagt Prevent things like "400 Server load too high, try again later" from making nnmaster exit. Title: make nn 6.4 PL18 compile (and work ;-)) for hp_ux 8.0. From: Bart Muyzer Title: `nn -xXm' does't clear to end of line (NN 6.4.19gamma) From: Paul Eggert NN wasn't properly clearing to end-of-line after each output line. From: Paul Eggert Title: infelicities in NN 6.4.19gamma term.c The term.c code had some really bizzare conditional tests that were uncessesary, and some were obvious typos. This patch doesn't fix any real bugs, but it removes the needless code. It also introduces a few optimizations in critical places: (This is a particularly big win on most Sparcs, which don't have integer division.) From: Peter Wemm Title: silly bug in nn-use-elm script contrib/nn-use-elm had a leading #/bin/sh instead of #!/bin/sh This causes invocation of csh on many systems... (including mine :-) From: Peter Wemm Title: long standing bug in sort.c non-related articles were often being associated in subject-match-parts mode. This tries to make it less likely. From: Steve Grimm Title: prefix.c fix, HAVE_TRUNCATE for SunOS. prefix.c change #ifdef NNTP to #ifdef INEWS_PATH SunOS has truncate. From: Michael Masterson Title: account.c is broken The code uses a structure before defined if accounting is enabled. Update s-sys5-4.h. m-i80386.h needs work. From: Peter Wemm Title: improve m-i80386.h m-i80386.h didn't deal with network byte order very well. As far as I can tell, if you want network byte order, then you probably want it for NFS sharing. In which case you have TCP/IP. Use it's routines. From: Steven Grimm Title: Patch for preview mode display glitch the 'xn' termcap flag is conflicting with clrline() and long subject lines, causing the following line to be cleared. From: Peter Wemm Title: fix aux.sh aux.sh was failing when using the nn_elm script from the FAQ. In the process of reformatting it, I found the bug, a missing semicolon. It would fail whenever mailer-pipe-input was unset. From: Peter Wemm Title: The Biggie! Merge in NOV code! Well, this is the big one. #ifdef NOV in config.h, and it even works over NNTP. The some of the hacks to get NN to use the libnov code is pretty baroque, but necessary in order to maintain compatability. NN's internals are *very* dependant on the nnmaster database and it does not particularly appreciate the change. If you enable NOV, all bets are off. :-) Most of the code is from Geoff Collyer although the NNTP mods and other tweaks are from others whom I cannot identify.. This is very much a Stop-Gap solution. From: Michael Masterson Title: auto-select-rw and maybe ignore-re kill folder mode NN takes a SEGV while reading a folder with these enabled. [Peter: I'm unable to reproduce the bug....] From: Steven Grimm Title: Patch for ignore-re and -x Here's a tiny patch so that ignore-re is turned off when you're using the -x flag, or when you go into a group to read old articles. I think this is better than the way it currently works; currently, if you have ignore-re set on a group, there's no way (that I can discover) to get nn to show you an article whose thread's initial article has expired. From: Peter Wemm Title: folder move vs. auto-select-rw Basically, patch up Michael Masterson's problem. Although I couldn't core dump (lucky me..), I did notice that if I was reading a folder, the articles I read were added to the kill file. I've added a temporary override to auto-select-rw that makes it ignored in a folder. This should fix Michael's problem. From: Peter Wemm Title: 6.4.19 is no more. So as to distinguish out butchering from Kim's work, we've decided on a revision "bump". It's NN-6.5 now. From: Peter Wemm Title: gcc -Wall cleanup It now compiles a lot more cleanly under -Wall, but not 100% clean.. :-) I found some sneaky bugs in the menu code and the init file parser in the process. From: Peter Wemm Title: Merge in Article search from Andy Burgess There are numerous collisions with the NOV code, and it does not work with digests, etc, etc. It is *not* enabled in config.h by default, as It has not revieved enough testing by the group. It's also not documented in the manual... (Volunteers?) Also, don't enable this if you read via nntp... Your server will hate you... -- 6.5.0 beta goes out Aug 31 1993 -- From: Paul Eggert Title: The code still says 6.4 in various files, including the documentation. From: Paul Eggert Title: Bogus prototypes for syslog() functions are wrong. From: Paul Eggert Title: NO_X_NEWSREADER should be defined by default. [Peter: Awww! If Tin can do it, why can't I? :-) ] From: Paul Eggert Title: Redeclaration of catch_winch on machines with RESIZING From: Paul Eggert Subject: nn-6.5.0 mishandles time zone changes near short month boundaries NN 6.5.0 mishandles non-GMT time zones near short month boundaries, which causes articles to be incorrectly sorted by date. For example, pack_date("30 Sep 1993 23:00 -0700") and pack_date("1 Oct 1993 06:00 GMT") should yield the same value, but in NN 6.5.0 the former yields 3614760 while the latter yields 3616200. This is becoming more and more of a problem as more people use non-GMT time zones in their news. Here is a patch. From: Toivo Pedaste Title: Missing 'static' on some functions db_init_group(), catch_winch(), grep_article() From: Steve Davies Title: signal prototypes misdeclared There were a few places where signal handlers were declared void, but in fact were sig_type. This was OK on machines that had the same definition, but not on those with sig_type == int. Also, truncate() is messed up.. From: Steve Grimm Title: tidy up config.h There were a few typos and errors in config.h-dist From: Peter Wemm Title: fix up prototype problems with truncate and gethostname It seems every system has a different idea on what they are supposed to be. I give up... NN has not got internal functions called nn_truncate and nn_gethostname, which are prototyped, and will call "the real thing" if it's available. It seems the safest way. From: Steve Davies Title: 6.5 NOV + NNTP cleanups NN + NNTP + NOV : db.c, global.h, nn.c, nntp.c - This patch fixes problems when NN is run on the same machine as the NNTP server. - When compiled with NNTP and NOV, a temp file was being created when the active, active.times, and .overview files were read from the NNTP server. This patch eliminates the creation of that temporary file. In db.c (readactfile, readtimfile, db_read_group), instead of reading from the temp file, the data is read directly from the NNTP server. The idea for this comes from Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk). This requires a simple patch to the nov sources (which probably should be applied by hand rather than running this file through patch): [NOTE: NN-6.5 contains a 'nov-lite' distribution with this patch applied and everything non-essential for NN removed. -Peter ] --- nov/libnov/oldlib.c Tue Sep 7 13:47:31 1993 +++ nov/libnov/lib.c Tue Sep 7 13:47:42 1993 @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ } while ((line = fgetms(gp->g_stream)) != NULL) { + if (line[0] == '.') break; art = (struct novart *)malloc(sizeof *art); if (art == NULL || (prssts = prsovline(line, gp, art, prevart)) == PRSFAIL) { - The code in db_read_art for handling crossposts when NOV is defined does not handle the (hypothetical?) case where there are extra headers besides Xref: in the .overview file. It also doesn't work when cnews is used to maintain the .overview files, since cnews appears to use xref: instead of Xref: in the .overview file. A new routine "db_fixup_cross_postings" is added to db.c . This routine is derived from code by Charles Henrich and rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com. From: Peter Wemm Title: include a minimal nov distribution. Because we need a trivial patch to the libnov code which Geoff Collyer doesn't want to put in his code (and quite understandably because it's a "hack"), and I dont want 10,000 email messages saying "NOV + NNTP doesn't work" when they build it without patching because they never read intructions that tell them to patch it. :-) If anybody does this to me now because they've removed the patched version, I'll reply with a uuencoded 16 Meg kernel crash dump. (ie: a bunny dropping..) :-) From: Peter Wemm Title: Fix "Out of memory: cannot allocate -4 bytes" If NN could not determine the window size from the termcap or the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl's, it would try and malloc a negative buffer.. From: Peter Wemm Title: typo in nn_gethostname() hostname.c would not compile if HAVE_HOSTNAME defined. From: Jim Jagielski Title: nn -a0 botches display on some hosts There is some interaction between curses, tprintf, and terminfo. From: Jim Jagielski Title: Add new conf/s-aux3-0.h From: Robert.Stockton@ELROND.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU Title: nov code overrunning '.' on XOVER data when active is incorrect. If the active file says there is articles, but the .overview is empty, the novall() and novnext() miss the "eof" dot and hang forever. From: Toivo Pedaste Title: Explicit support for mouse under xterm This code can detect if running under xterm, and will enable mouse events if so. The mouse clicks are used for menu selection, reading, previewing and so on. It makes NN "almost" hands-free for most news reading tasks. From: Peter Wemm Title: Minor tweaks for mouse-code Because of a "feature" apparently in the SYSV termio driver and possibly the POSIX termios, NN was disabling raw mode during screen updates in order to enable xon-xoff flow control to work. This was causing character echoing of mouse events during screen redraws and looked rather ugly. This problem never occurs on older BSD systems with the sgtty style driver. This tweak causes NN to not switch off raw mode on Xterms when mouse is enabled.. Heck, if xterm needs flow control, something is very wrong... From: Tom Limoncelli Title: Possible memory leaks Purify is not at all happy with some of the things that the NOV code does. I dont think there is much of a problem, although I agree that it's messy. Basically, NN is allocating buffers for the hash tables and not freeing them at exit. As these are reused while NN travels from group to group, this is mostly static. NN does not free() these on exit and Purify complains. The invitation to fix this is open to all.. :-) From: Peter Wemm Title: major reorganisation of NOV code. Shift files from nov/* to the top level directory for radical simplification of compilation. Rationalise include files. Substitute some simple routines to reduce extra files needed from the NOV distibution. From: Peter Wemm Title: major repairs of above reorganisation. Well, the "simple" reorganisation turned out to be rather dramatic in it's affects. This cost weeks of debugging and nearly caused me to give up and reverse the last upmteen patches (I had neglected to do a CVS checkin before starting). It turned out to me a malloc problem. I *suspect* there is still a memory leak there, but it doesn't seem to show up on the process size after a lengthy reading session.. From: Ian Nicholls Title: NCR tower 32 tweaks. nn-6.5.0.b2 had troubles with include files. This helps a bit. From: Marc Boucher Title: additions to conf/s-sys5-4.h This adds some omissions to the config file. From: Marc Boucher Title: bzero/memset are out, clearobj is in... Following Kim's coding conventions, change a couple of memset()'s that I introduced to clearobj's. This looks a lot nicer now.. From: Michael Pins Title: b4 patch An nntp speedup, along with changing a number of chars back to ints so nn will actually work properly on a number of systems. nn-6.5.0.b5: From: mcm@gorgon.unx.sas.com (Mike Mitchell) Subject: Re: Problems with splitting digests Digests are now split under NOV. From: romain@sword.eng.pyramid.com (Romain Kang) Subject: NN hacks for NOV Major NOV hacks. Things should be rather faster now. Also, the addition of nnview for reading folders. From: Michael Pins General bug-fixing and patch cleanup. nn-6.5.0.b6: From lar3ry@zk3.dec.com Subject: OSF/1 (err, Digital Unix) patches Fixes for the Alpha and OSF/1. From: David Dyer-Bennet Subject: s-linux.h config file for linux From: jpc@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark) Subject: libnov.c bug There's a bug in the code that causes .newsrc to be updated even though the corresponding articles aren't read. Swapped the order of the test. From: Jacob Martin Bohn Lorensen Subject: timeout problem with NOV and nntp When the server unexpectedly breaks the connection nn does not always discover this. This can be fixed by just re-opening the connection. From: Michael Pins General bug-fixing, patch cleanup and code cleanup. nn-6.5.0.b7: From: config files for AIX/RS6000, and a patch for AIX brain damage. From: Michael Pins Put accounting logs under LIB instead of DB, so DB isn't needed unless nnmaster is used. Pulled accounting #def's out of account.c into the new account.h so it's no longer necessary to edit a .c file. Fixed line counting in digests (used to claim one too many). Included the inst.sh file for the Apollo I've been using for years. Anyone running Domain/OS will want to use this instead of inst.sh. Yet more general clean-up. nn-6.5.0: Added account.h to account dependencies. Added freebsd config file. Hacked together some docs for nnview. Yet even more general clean-up. nn-6.5.1: Added netbsd config file. Fixed up s-template.h. SunOS doesn't have memmove (and likely neither do most older BSD derived systems). Early versions of Solaris don't have bcopy.... Added NO_MEMMOVE and used it to ifdef around these. Most (all?) can probably be memcpy, but until I have time to insure that the args don't overlap, I'll be paranoid. nn-6.5.2: Changed group_number to int32 so > 32767 groups works Fixed problem with long References: lines Fixed problem with large headers (seen mainly in nnview) Hacked in a workaround for sites that don't support LIST active.times nn will now see new groups properly More general cleanup of the code and minor bug fixes From: mtranle@theoden.intellicorp.com (Minh Tran-Le) nn was eating the first number from a LIST response workaround for M$ newsserver braindamage From: Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk (Nick Holloway) fix for INN return message re: mail to moderator nn-6.5.3: Ripped out "LIST active.times" workaround. Typhoon will support it soon (likely before anyone reads this), and the workaround had bugs. Changed accounting so that time used outputs HH:MM instead of HH.MM (does anyone still use accounting?) Added a compile time option to turn on more headers to make the GNKSA people happy. The default behavior hasn't changed. From: Bruce Fisher The news spool directory was hardcoded in libnov.c, conflicting with NEWS_DIRECTORY from config.h From: Dale Talcott A new variable "cross_post_limit" to kill articles posted to more than cross_post_limit newsgroups. Default=0 (no limit). From: Dale Talcott bug in pack_date.c--computes leap year incorrectly From: Tom Kartes Killing the current article sometimes kicks you out of the newsgroup. From: Tom Kartes Saving an article into a file will escape some headerlines if you're using NOV and did not previously view this article. From: 5ar4ro$ri7@bogon.com (John Henders) a patch that adds S)ign [pgp] as an option to the posting menu From: "Maarten Carels" new config.h option to have a different filename for the overview files nn-6.5.4: Changed defaults in config.h to more sane ones. Fixed a bug in libnov.c so NOV_FILENAME actually works. Fixed a nasty bug that would occasionally cause nn to go ballistic when ripping a digest if the overview data wasn't quite right. nn now compiles cleanly on FreeBSD. nn-6.5.5: Changed answer.c to use 4-digit year (making it RFC-822 non-compliant, but son-of-rfc-1036 compliant). Back-ported pack-date.c from nn7. It fixes a number of minor bugs, and deals with Y2K brain-damage from other software. nn-6.5.6: Fixed two new date sorting bugs. Oops. Workaround for new brain-damage in Solaris7 include files. nn-6.6: Fixed large uid/gid problems Fixed Cc (it actually works now) changed X-Newsreader to User-Agent changed -ltermcap to -lncurses in s-linux.h, as they broke it again the date parser now translates 101 -> 2001 (yes, I'm still seeing this) backported some changes to decode from nn7 From: Dave Olson added NNTP_AUTH support added ssl support nn now posts internally via NNTP (NNTP only) all functions of aux now internal (NNTP only) added support for multiple nntp-server/newsrc/nn-directory From: Charles Lindsey aliased groups didn't work correctly with NOV/no-NNTP From: jpc@suespammers.org (J. Porter Clark) added E = save-header-only function nn-6.6.1: online help files will now get installed properly. now compiles if nntp isn't defined. dumped core on posting if news-record had a bad path. Fixed. no longer segfaults if user over quota. no longer segfaults if NNTPSERVER is invalid. will now search path for executables. passwords longer than 8 chars now work from Solaris. nn will silently ignore any non-digests with [D,d]igest in the subject, and apparently has for quite some time. set the default for also_full_digest to true as workaround. nn has long gotten all the articles in a group when any number of extra articles was requested. Fixed. will now reconnect if it times out during a post. nn-6.6.2: nn wouldn't compile if NNTP was defined and NOV wasn't. Fixed. nn-6.6.3: cpp is broken on gcc-3.x. Worked around. ripped out SSL support, as it was apparently fatally broken. removed nnmail and HAVE_ROUTING. No longer needed. converted from varargs to stdargs. added MacOS X support nn will now attempt to discover the domain if not defined. will now reconnect, even to broken servers that don't send 503 From: Bob Hain use full_name instead of pw_gecos in gen_frompath nn-6.6.4: added iso-8859-15 to chset increased END_OF_LIST (some servers have very large article numbers) changed ospeed to nnspeed to avoid namespace conflicts always rebuild binary killfile when starting nn(NOV) if the ORGANIZATION environment variable is set, nn will use it the editor again accepts arguments, and starts after the headers added new variable use-editor-line, for the above From: Jacques A. Vidrine nn has a remote security hole. Fixed. From: Felicia Neff (fn@panix.com) the variables for nn_exitmsg when nn is already running were swapped nn-6.6.5: added -lcurses to macosx TERMLIB nnview doesn't need to talk to the NNTPSERVER removed last vestige of sys_errlist From: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk cp is undefined if DOMAIN is defined and HIDDENNET isn't. Fixed. From: Neil W Rickert nn segfaults if it reconnects during initial authentication. Fixed. From: Jeffery Small nn sends a bogus [post|follow] failed message when using cnews and !nntp. Fixed. (re-added two options to config.h) nn-6.7alpha: Fixed some portability problems with old OSs. First pass at starting to clean up the code. Ick, what a mess. nnmaster and nnacct appear to have been broken during nn-6.6, fixed. The name length displayed is now based upon the width of the screen. nn will now correctly parse From: lines that contain () For example: From: "Jesse James (home)" used to display as "home", the new behavior will display it as "Jesse James". However, this may affect killfiles that depend upon the old behavior. To use the old behavior, set the new run-time variable 'old-packname' to true. The hold command from the post/mail menu failed if the users nn_directory wasn't a local filesystem. Fixed. nnpost didn't check to see if there was a held message. Fixed. Posting from nnview failed due to the nntp connection not being setup. Fixed. When replying with a held message, nn would use the post menu. Fixed. Header check macro is now case insensitive for both news and folders. Added GPG support, which comes with a new run-time variable 'sign-type', and a compile-time variable SIGN_TYPE to set the default to either pgp or gpg. nn will now print the version before connecting to the newsserver internalized :bug information for more accurate reporting nn will now look in /etc/resolv.conf for a domain if DOMAIN isn't defined and hostname isn't a FQDN. new command ":show config" will show the compile-time definitions. From: Henning Schmiedehausen If query-signature wasn't set, nn ignored signature-append-post. Fixed. From: Tim nntp-user and nntp-password should be settable in the init file. Fixed. From: Steve Rumble nn segfaults if a client is unable to resolve it's own name. Fixed. From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) nn should trim long References: lines. Added patch to do so. nn-6.7beta: Cleaned up some old (unused) variables. More general code cleanup. Updated the manpages to include new variables. Updated INSTALLATION and other docs so they're (roughly) current. If new-group-action is set to 0 in init, nn will no longer get active.times. (Yes, this is what the docs have claimed was always true, it actually works now.) This can cut startup time in half on slower links. nn-6.7.0: And yet even more general code cleanup. rearranged startup code so macros and keymaps work in the init file. only query-signature if .signature exists fixed some portability problems with NeXTstep-3.3 and NetBSD nn-6.7.1: declared main to be int in usercheck.c and cvt-help.c changed a few refs to nn-6.5 and nn-6.6 to nn-6.7 clear display before printing "No News" so as to not overwrite nn-6.7.2: changed TERMIO to TERMIOS in s-linux.h execute needs to exit, not return, if exec fails callable programs (i.e pager) should accept arguments nn-6.7.3: Fixed the Makefile so recent versions of gcc no longer choke. The -N option appears to have been broken since 6.6.0. Fixed.