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From: schmitz@hpscdc.HP.COM (John Schmitz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: has mhlsbr "major bug" ever been fixed?
Message-ID: <5740006@hpscdc.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 89 02:04:59 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Div.
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At the top of uip/mhlsbr.c, there is a comment that says:

 /* MAJOR BUG:
   for a component containing addresses, ADDRFMT, if COMPRESS is also
   set, then addresses get split wrong (not at the spaces between commas).
   To fix this correctly, putstr() should know about "atomic" strings that
   must NOT be broken across lines.  That's too difficult for right now
   (it turns out that there are a number of degernate cases), so in
   oneline(), instead of

and continues on with a temporary fix.  Has anybody ever considered
fixing the problem correctly in "putstr()" as the comment suggests?
It would make mhl formatting work better.