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From: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XMH: Extra numbers keep appearing in msg numbers
Message-ID: <9010291523.AA01846@excess.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 15:23:41 GMT
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Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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> Apparently, xmh likes to add extra numbers in front of the message ID
> numbers every now and then.  When the user tries to click on that
> message (to read it, etc), either xmh crashes or it displays the wrong
> message.
> 
> One reported fix to this problem was to apply a patch to
> mit/clients/xmh/tocutil.c.  The patch rewrites a for loop to count
> down rather than up.  This work arounds a bug in gcc 1.37.1.
> 
> However, applying this patch did not solve the problem for us.  To
> confirm this, I compiled xmh with Sun's C compiler (on a Sun 3 running
> SunOS 4.0.3), and still the problem persisted.  So it does not seem
> like a gcc vs cc issue.


After recompiling xmh with cc, every xmh user should regenerate the
message listing in each affected folder by selecting Rescan Folder from
the Table of Contents menu.  If it still happens after that, I'll eat my hat.