Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews inbound batches going into in.coming/bad
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.171537.2359@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep24.180726.11442@nstar.uucp> <1990Sep25.151613.1979@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Sep26.114528.24670@nstar.uucp>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 17:15:37 GMT

In article <1990Sep26.114528.24670@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>relaynews: error writing `L', probably the disk filled
>...
>the above message is bogus - I have plenty of disk space --

Geoff's code is being a little overoptimistic about deciding the cause
of the problem.  In this case, it looks very much like you've got the
wrong number of fields in that new sys-file line, so the "flags" field
is being taken as the batchfile name.
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