Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Wierd AMS Error Message-ID: Date: 24 Sep 90 22:20:38 GMT References: <0azWuLH0BwwOM1h5tU@transarc.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 Brian and I resolved this off-line. His problem was a zero-length file in the folder into which his ATK-formatted posts were going, and CUI or his flames file were handling that situation badly. (I've deleted his resolution messages, unfortunately, but I believe that the zero-length file was in a folder.) It sounds like this qualifies as a CUI/message server bug. In trying to reproduce the problem, I'm unable to. I have no .AMS.flames file. I can put a zero-length file in my mail folder, touch the .AMS_DIRMOD file, and read a new message with CUI. CUI correctly notices the zero-length garbage file (~/.MESSAGES/mail/+garbage) and incorporates it (actually, deletes it--hm). Maybe things don't work out so gracefully when a Flames file has trouble processing the non-existent message headers. Craig