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From: pjg@urth.acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: mh-format questions
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Date: 3 Dec 89 04:03:29 GMT
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In article <5186@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, gregg@cbnewsc (gregg.g.wonderly) writes:
>%(lit some-text) is one use for %(lit).  It appears to be in several format
>files to cure a used to be NULL pointer bug that left the internal string
>register, str, pointing at garbage.

aha.  it's not that i'm an mh dilettante but i guess am.  i just used
that contruct to bandage a formataddr problem on my sun4's running
mh6.6 but clearly the problem has been fixed.  can someone point me to
a place where i can find (preferably ftp) some semi-official (or
better) patches to mh that fix this and, no doubt, other problems.

please send me mail and i'll fend off other requests for the same. if any.
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