CHANGES tin v1.2 PL1 -> tin 1.2 PL2 ----------------------------------- 1) Colin Perkins (csp@ohm.york.ac.uk) BUG. Compile fails on Next due to use of getcwd() in misc.c FIX. misc.c - applied supplied patch. 2) Richard Lloyd (rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk) BUG. 'make install' fails because of wrong variable names. FIX. makefile - applied supplied patch. 3) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de) BUG. Return code from external news is wrong from 1.20 change. FIX. inews.c - changed back to pre v1.2 PL1 behaviour. 4) Mike Glendinning (mikeg@ingres.co.uk) BUG. directory struct dirent explicitly used instead of DIR_BUF. FIX. save.c - applied supplied patch. 5) Pieter Immelman (pi@itu1.sun.ac.za) BUG. Reading xover Xref: line when not there causes SIGSEGV. FIX. art.c - applied supplied patch. 6) Mark Tomlinson (mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz) BUG. Would not compile on AmigaDOS. FIX. applied supplied patch. 7) Julian Thompson (jrt@oasis.icl.co.uk) BUG. input_peneding() routine does not work if HAVE_POLL is defined. FIX. art.c - applied supplied patch. 8) Clifton Royston (cliftonr@netcom.com) BUG. Lines not correctly formatted in check_article_to_be_posted(). FIX. post.c - adding flushing to stdout stream. 9) Richard Lloyd (rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk) BUG. Would not compile on HPUX 9.X machines. FIX. config.h - applied supplied patch. 10) Mike Glendinning (mikeg@ingres.co.uk) BUG. SHould make use of INN nntplib routines if available. FIX. tin.h init.c inews.c - applied supplied patch. 11) Earle Ake (akee@wpdis11.wpafb.af.mil) BUG. Default mailer does not understand '@' notation on u3b2 machines. FIX. tin.h - applied supplied patch. 12) Earle Ake (akee@wpdis11.wpafb.af.mil) BUG. Default mailer path is wrong on Pyramid machines. FIX. tin.h - applied supplied patch. 13) Clifton Royston (cliftonr@netcom.com) BUG. Entering groups takes a lot longer than required by tin v1.20. FIX. tin.h newsrc.c - applied supplied patch. 14) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com) BUG. Tcp/ip socket buffer size is very small on hpux machines. FIX. nntplib.c - applied supplied patch. 15) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com) BUG. valid_artnum() routine does a linear search routine which is a killer in big groups. Needs converting to use a binary search. FIX. art.c - applied supplied patch. 16) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de) BUG. v1.21 would not allow articles to be posted if the group was not present in the sites active file which caused problems for sites that did not take a full feed. FIX. INSTALL post.c - Added HAVE_FACIST_NEWSADMIN to allow the message to be a warning or an error (facist mode). 17) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com) BUG. system() call does not work correctly on hpux machines. FIX. misc.c - applied supplied patch. 18) Olaf Mittelstaedt BUG. Needs c:\tmp on a HPFS partition FIX. Use envvar TMPDIR for location of tmp directory 19) Malkani Sanjay (sanjay@uxmail.ust.hk) [OS/2] ASK. support for local newsspool ADD. support for local newsspool 20) Richard Stanton (stanton@haas.berkeley.edu) [OS/2] BUG. Cannot use C:\ as HOME. FIX. checking for trailing '\' in path before adding '\' 21) Andreas Wrede (andreas@scilink.org) BUG. Would not compile on OS/2 FIX. applied supplied patch 22) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com) ADD. page.c - contributed MIME support via call to metamail. 23) Phil Molyneux (molyneux@kingston.ac.uk) BUG. Manual page list bug report command to be 'R' when it is actually 'B'. FIX. tin.1 - corrected manual page. 24) Andreas Baumann (andresb@kbfi.ee) BUG. Crashes if a LIST OVERVIEW.FMT is done to an ANU nntp server. FIX. open.c - added check to see if xover command is supported. 25) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de) BUG. Specifying alternate news index directory does not work. FIX. init.c - re-added check for TIN_INDEX & -I cmd line option. 26) Werner Fleck (Fleck@tu-harburg.dbp.de) BUG. If a filename like "$FOO", e.g. an env var without a trailing "/" is used strfpath() will return a bogus filename. FIX. misc.c - applied supplied patch. 27) Bryan Dongray (btd@uk.cray.com) BUG. Too I/O bound when doing HEAD calls via NNTP. FIX. art.c open.c - applied supplied patch. 28) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com) BUG. Article checking routine should not allow user to insert From: line. FIX. post.c - applied supplied patch. 30) Bryan Dongray (btd@uk.cray.com) BUG. Does not reconnect to nntp server to timed out nntp server. FIX. nntplib.c - applied supplied patch. 31) Kazushi Marukawa (kazushi@kubota.co.jp) BUG. errno is not defined in misc.c so fails on Mips machines. FIX. misc.c - applied supplied patch 32) Mark Tomlinson (mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz) BUG. sigdisp() does not always return a value from signal(). FIX. signal.c - applied supplied patch. 33) Otto Lind (otto@coactive.com) BUG. read_newsrc_line() wastefully calling find_group_index(). FIX. newsrc.c - applied supplied patch. 34) Alan Thew (Alan.Thew@liverpool.ac.uk) BUG. does not find xref lines in Cnews generated overview files. FIX. art.c - added extra check for lowercase xref header string. 35) Brett Carver (brett@hpsrjtc.sr.hp.com) BUG. Copy of users pwd data is a ptr to static buf that returned from getpwnam() and can be overwritten if called again. FIX. init.c - saved copy of pwd entry so that its not overwriiten. 36) Clifton Royston (cliftonr@netcom.com) BUG. The INSTALL document could be clearer in machine naming text. FIX. INSTALL - applied supplied patch. 37) Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net) BUG. Would not compile on 386BSD. FIX. config.h - applied supplied patch. 38) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de) BUG. When searching for a group name should also look at description. FIX. search.c - modified search_group() to also check description. 39) Clifton Royston (cliftonr@netcom.com) ADD. active.c - auto-subscribe/unsubscribe to new newsgroups. Checks for the env. variables. 40) Bryan Dongray (btd@uk.cray.com) ADD. Recognizes mouse buttons when running in an xterm window. 41) Tom Parry (parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au) ADD. Added -n cmd line option to only read subscribed to groups from the active file and not the whole active file. This is a big win when reading via a slow line. 42) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de) ADD. When selecting a group/subject via a number it will automatically enter the group/article.