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- SLURP HISTORY
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-
- V1.05 - 1 March 1993
-
- Completely cleaned up space.c. Added proper support for space
- checking in SVR4.
-
- Modified read_sys so that it is possible to have lines in the
- slurp.sys file which are longer than BUFSIZ.
-
- Check unretrieved message IDs in the slurp.<hostname> file start
- and end with chevrons.
-
- Moved sublist in the command line arguments to being specified
- after the hostname with a slash separating them, to make things
- more consistent.
-
- A few more minor tidy-ups, in particular portability has been
- improved in a few places.
-
-
- V1.04 - 14 February 1993
-
- Malloc message id separately from mnode structure as the previous
- method seemed to cause problems on some architectures.
-
- Now handles article lines of >= 511 bytes without overwriting
- memory.
-
- Support for simple authorisation protocol.
-
- Support for INN 'MODE READER' command.
-
- read_sys rewritten to allow command line flags to be specified for
- servers, support having more than one set of newsgroups to be
- retrieved from the same server, and provide the username and
- password for the simple authorisation protocol.
-
- New choice of piping articles to rnews (possibly in one batch only)
- or writing article batches to the incoming news / rnews spool
- directory. This will provide a speed-up for users of INN.
-
- Replaced slurp.tim file with slurp.<hostname> files, solving
- locking problems and providing support for the enhancement below.
-
- If an error occurs during the article fetching stage, then dump the
- message ids of articles not yet retrieved to slurp.<hostname>.
- These can then be picked up in the next session, without having to
- restart the NEWNEWS back at the previous time.
-
- No requirement for slurp.<hostname> to exist as slurp.tim used to
- have to be if you wanted a time written out.
-
- Re-arranged the command line options.
-
-
- V1.03 - 19 December 1992
-
- Added extra compilation configuration option for machines that
- don't have strerror().
-
- If a temporary file was opened for reading a long article into
- which wouldn't fit in memory, then it was flushed at the end of
- read_article. Unfortunately, the test wasn't done correctly so if a
- long article was once read in, it would keep flushing the now
- invalid file descriptor on future calls. Fixed by removing this
- altogether as the subsequent rewind would do the job anyway.
-
- Open syslog *before* we start doing things that might want to write
- to it... Connected, articles retrieved and speed messages logged
- as LOG_INFO instead of the previously wrong LOG_NOTICE.
-
- When mallocing space for the article id tree, only malloc enough
- room for the article id and left/right node pointers, not the whole
- structure, saving oodles of memory.
-
- Corrected the test for the maximum size of a NEWNEWS request line.
-
- Various minor tidy-ups.
-
- Added manual page and made various improvements to the
- documentation.
-
-
- V1.02 - 7 December 1992
-
- Corrected openlog calls so correct 4.2/4.3 version of syslog is
- used.
-
-
- V1.01 - 6 December 1992
-
- Fixed some problems with null-dereferencing of nn_distributions.
- New slurp.tim not written if maximum number of messages that can
- be transferred is hit.
-
- When debugging switched on, print line being sent to server before
- it is sent rather than after.
-
- Added documentation on return codes.
-
-
- V1.00 - 2 December 1992
-
- Initial release.
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