Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!uunet!ginger.acc.com!ivucsb!todd
From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp
Subject: Re: uucico is eating my outgoing mail!
Message-ID: <1989Oct21.162304.15802@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 21 Oct 89 16:23:04 GMT
References: <1989Oct14.105712.9505@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <1989Oct16.181609.14182@mccc.uucp> <2479@flatline.UUCP> <12999@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Disillusioned Graduate Hackers, Santa Barbara, CA
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david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:

`Well, I just glanced into the source and unfortunately the answer didn't
`leap out at me.  However ... The only place I could find that message being 
`printed is, as I say, at the level above the line protocol.  It is waiting
`to read a message from the remote side.  The FAIL message is caused when
`the read() doesn't return the correct number of characters -- like I said
`above, <= 0 characters.

What I want to know it, since it did fail, why does it remove the file it
was trying to send?  I don't think the program realizes that it removed
the file, because it does try to send it.  Then I get a mail message from
uucp that a uucp transfer failed because it couldn't find the file.

-- 
Todd Day  |  todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us  |  ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com
"But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand
 unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System -- and would
 be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate." -- Stephen Hawking