result of 'list active'

[Blackened Cajun Fluffy]

In nnfolder+Mail:inn-workers, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:
>> Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou at nec.co.jp> writes:

>>> I noticed 'list active' just includes one character for flag in each
>>> line.  This means no information can be got for any aliased newsgroup.
[...]
> Looking at the code, it appears that we are, and that it's hard to fix.

It's better than it looks at first glance, because the shortcut only
gets used if the list command matches a single group.  Note that there
is still a "has been renamed" message in post.c which is less
informative than it used to be, and that one *would* be a pain to fix.


*** commands.c.old	Mon Apr 10 05:18:33 2000
--- commands.c	Mon Apr 10 05:26:38 2000
***************
*** 419,425 ****
  	lp = &INFOactive;
  	if (ac == 3) {
  	    wildarg = av[2];
! 	    if (OVgroupstats(wildarg, &lo, &hi, NULL, &flag)) {
  		Reply("%d %s.\r\n", NNTP_LIST_FOLLOWS_VAL, lp->Format);
  		Printf("%s %010d %010d %c\r\n.\r\n", wildarg, hi, lo, flag);
  		return;
--- 419,425 ----
  	lp = &INFOactive;
  	if (ac == 3) {
  	    wildarg = av[2];
! 	    if (OVgroupstats(wildarg, &lo, &hi, NULL, &flag) && flag != '=') {
  		Reply("%d %s.\r\n", NNTP_LIST_FOLLOWS_VAL, lp->Format);
  		Printf("%s %010d %010d %c\r\n.\r\n", wildarg, hi, lo, flag);
  		return;