Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: weird exit status in newsrun
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.202800.19609@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 20:28:00 GMT

For the folks who've been getting bizarre exit-status values, like 1005,
from newsrun... there are some indications that this may be an obscure
shell problem arising from using a pipeline in an if condition.  You
might want to try deleting the following lines from newsrun:

		elif c7decode <$f 2>/dev/null | compress -d >$text 2>/dev/null
		then
			: okay

This code gets used only for the 0.0001% of sites that use c7encoded
transmission.
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