Hello andrew!

13 Aug 03 15:36, andrew clarke wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 ac> But HPT is the origin.

   ----- dopost begins -----
#!/bin/sh
#
/home/xpoint/fido/bin/hpt post -nf "Sysop" -af 2:237/53.0 -nt
"All" -at 2:237/53.0 -s "new fileareas at xpoint" -e
"xpoint_info" -z "42% of stats are useless" -o
"sporten kort x" -f loc -d /usr/local/ftp/filelist/annfecho.txt
/home/xpoint/fido/bin/hpt qrep
# now announce
/home/xpoint/fido/bin/htick announce
   ----- dopost ends -----

well, if we gone complain its that -o does not have default :)

 ac> Posting a new message to a message base without an origin line is a 
 ac> perfectly valid thing to do.

hpt have no problem with this when using the bash above :)

 ac> Programs that have no way of knowing what the system's actual origin 
 ac> address is have no choice but to leave out the origin line.

hpt can change origin to system name from nodelist if origin are missing on
incomming msgs, thats a fix for brokken msgs :)

--- Hpt/LNX 1.9.0 Fixed your brokken software :)


 Regards Benny

... and it works :)

--- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/2.4.20-19.8 (i686))