Alime.208 net.news.b utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!martin Thu Apr 8 16:58:48 1982 duplicate articles due to concurrent inews. I have two sources of news (houxg,houxe) which sometimes send me news at the same time (within 1 second). The result is two items in my spool directory which are the same. The problem is due to NO lock on the history file. My only solution is to put a sleep(rand()%5); into inews (i don't want to!). martin levy, Bell Labs, Holmdel. HO(201-949)-2787 (houxg!lime!martin). ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.