Answer to recent uqwk problem

- (w2jc@ritz.mordor.com)
Sun, 05 May 1996 04:31:15 -0400

Since I havent seen it reposted to the group here, here is what I
found on alt.usenet.offline-reader:

Article in newsgroup alt.usenet.offline-reader titled:
"Re: uqwk error, please help"
>from ernestyik@cuhk.edu.hk (Ernest Yik) on 3 May 1996 05:59:38 GMT:

26 Apr 1996 13:02:12 GMT, Andrew Wing (agwing@astro.ocis.temple.edu) wrote:

: Uqwk has operated flawlessly for nearly two years now. Just
: yesterday, I started getting the following error:
: rrn server response to group xxxxxxxxx

Exactly what I've met a few days ago. It turns out to be some
extra-long header lines in some articles that overflowed uqwk's string
buffer. If you have the source code of uqwk, take a look in the file
nntp.h :

/* RFC 977 defines this; don't change it. */
#define NNTP_STRLEN 512

I changed it to a bigger number (1024), recompile uqwk, and the
problem went away. However, I'm not sure if this change will break any
other things or not. If you know that changing this number will cause
any trouble, or have a better solution, please tell us. Thank you.

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