From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 23:39:05 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> B. History files made up of fixed length records (e.g. INN), which
> enables entries to be overwritten in situ. The History line typically
> contains a hash of the message identifier plus some pointer to an object
> representing the article as stored.
To correct a misunderstanding that was probably due to my comments, INN
does not currently have fixed-length records in the history file. This is
an anticipated feature of a superior history implementation for INN 2.4
that I haven't started writing yet.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>