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From: syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: News software corrupted Elm patch 4 at some sites
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.141413.21749@DSI.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 90 14:14:13 GMT
Sender: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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It appears, from reports I am getting, that some news site somewhere
truncated a line in the Elm patch 2.3 patch 4.  (The one where I
forgot to put the patch number on the header line).

The 'malformed line from patch' error is due to the long line being
split by some news sites into two lines.  If you put it back together
to one line, all should be ok.  Below is the correct contents of
the line (but split into multiple lines so the news software doesn't
kill it again).  Please make sure that yours says what this one does
and its all on one line

(I know how to make it multiple lines in the shell script, but if you
want future patches to patch cleanly, you have to track our sources)

! pth="/usr/ucb /bin /usr/bin /usr/local /usr/local/bin /usr/lbin
	/usr/5bin /vol/local/bin /etc /usr/lib /lib /usr/local/lib
	/sys5.3/bin /sys5.3/usr/bin /bsd4.3/bin /bsd4.3/usr/bin
	/bsd4.3/usr/ucb /usr/convex /usr/mmdf/bin
	${BSDBASE-/bsd}/usr/ucb ${BSDBASE-/bsd}/bin
	${BSDBASE-/bsd}/usr/bin"

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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                          Voice: (215) 947-9900
syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd                        FAX:   (215) 938-0235

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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                          Voice: (215) 947-9900
syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd                        FAX:   (215) 938-0235