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From: schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
Subject: Re: Uncompressed news discarded in C News
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References: <1990Sep26.205549.14138@idacom.uucp> <1990Oct2.020620.6929@oresoft.com> <1990Oct3.162212.24528@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 20:59:07 GMT

In article <1990Oct3.162212.24528@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|> You might try running relaynews manually with one of the troublesome batches
|> as input, and seeing what the shell has to say about that status.  The high
|> bit indicates that the program is not just returning a non-zero exit status,
|> it is actually failing by being hit with some sort of signal.

When you run something from the BSD csh, note that if the process dies
with SIGPIPE, csh won't say anything but "Done".  I suppose this is
because when a process pipes its output to another one a SIGPIPE exit
is "normal".

	Steve