Recent changes to patches

UTF-8 fix to not "molest" sequences

Eli the Bearded — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 05:35:34 -0000

Problem: UTF-8 sequences can include octets between 0x80 and 0x9F, which also correspond to the old notion of "highbit control characters". trn, by default, squashes control characters, including highbit control characters.

Solution: stop doing that

--- trn-4.0-test77/art.c.orig   2010-09-02 02:12:26.000000000 -0400
+++ trn-4.0-test77/art.c        2018-03-01 20:15:59.000000000 -0500
@ -468,7 +468,7 @@
                        outpos += 2;
                    }
                    else {              /* other control char */
-                       if (dont_filter_control) {
+                       if (dont_filter_control || (*bufptr & 0x80)) {
                            if (outputok)
                                putchar(*bufptr);
                            outpos++;

Recognize dates from nntp.olduse.net

Olaf Seibert — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:37:36 -0000

nntp.olduse.net may give Date: lines like this:
Date: Tue Dec 8 11:47:11 1981
and they were not recognized. Sorting by date failed because of that.

Configure recognizes .dylib

Anno — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:17:15 -0000

On darwin (OS X) the extension for shared libraries is
".dylib", but Configure assumes ".so". The attached
patch correts this.

Otherwise I'm happy that trn now compiles under
darwin.

Anno

patch to build trn with gcc 4.x

Scott Alfter — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:03:37 -0000

From http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/t/trn4/trn4_4.0-test76-10/changelog:

* Always include opt.h after util.h to avoid "array type has incomplete element type" errors

This patch enabled trn to build on a Gentoo 2007.0 system with gcc 4.1.2.

Make trn/Pnews screen-aware

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Aug 2000 01:15:33 -0000

Use In-Reply-To: lines to help threading

Colin Watson — Wed, 31 May 2000 01:13:40 -0000