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From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: rn trashes .mailrc
Message-ID: <619@ccssrv.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 20:12:31 GMT
Reply-To: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
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Organization: Control-C Software, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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On two occasions recently, rn has trashed my .mailrc file.

The first time, it declared all my newsgroups to be bogus, and unsubscribed
them.  I have no idea why.

The second time, the disk containing .newsrc was full.  There were several
kernel messages about failed writes, and presumably rn received some sort
of error indication, but the error was not handled well if at all.

This is on SunOS 3.5 (4.2BSD).  The v command to rn gives
@(#)$Header: rn.c,v 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:05:13 lwall Exp $