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only minor edits are required to get this to work. The edits change the multi-dot filenames to single or no-dot formats.

the two files that needed modification are [.lib]post_inc.php and [.lib]thread_inc.php. (see diff output below for changes)

There are some anomalies when trying to get the app to see new newsgroups added to the groups.txt (list of newsgroups) and grpaccess.txt (list of newgroups with access modes (y for write - n for nowrite) This could have probably been handled in one file..


Michael Austin

$ diff [.lib]post_inc.php
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File [.LIB]post_inc.php;2
189 $cachefile=str_replace(".","",$newsgroups);
190 $cachefile=$spooldir.'/'.$newsgroups.'-cache.txt';
******
File [.LIB]post_inc.php;1
189 $cachefile=$spooldir.'/'.$newsgroups.'-cache.txt';
************




$ diff [.lib]thread_inc.php; [.lib]thread_inc.php;1
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File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;5
91 $group = str_replace(".","",$group);
92 if ($compress_spoolfiles) {
******
File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;1
91 if ($compress_spoolfiles) {
************
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File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;5
97 $group = str_replace(".","",$group);
98 $file=fopen("$spooldir/$group-data.dat","w");
******
File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;1
96 $file=fopen("$spooldir/$group-data.dat","w");
************
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File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;5
398 $infofilename = str_replace(".","",$infofilename);
399 $infofile=fopen($infofilename,"w");
******
File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;1
396 $infofile=fopen($infofilename,"w");
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File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;5
486 $cachefile = str_replace(".","",$cachefile);
487 $fp_cachefile=fopen($cachefile,"w");
******
File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;1
483 $fp_cachefile=fopen($cachefile,"w");
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File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;5
958 $filename = str_replace(".","",$filename);
959 $file=fopen($filename,"w");
******
File [.LIB]thread_inc.php;1
954 $file=fopen($filename,"w");
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I installed mod_php 1.2-1 on my Itanium/VMS8.2/ODS-5/CSWS1.3-1. Newsportal Newsreader started without any changes (there are multidot files names in PHP scripts, and there are multidot PHP script and config files). Of course I had to change some settings (but I did not change sources) and I had to change PHP_SETUP.COM to work with ODS-5 files as release notes say.