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From: K.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: c-news expire problem and questions
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.214156.4888@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 30 Oct 90 21:41:56 GMT
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In article <1990Oct29.174750.19269@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Oct29.045714.8306@massey.ac.nz> K.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo) writes:
>>.  This could be due to a bug I've heard about
>>in some Bourne shells that won't let you pipe the result of ( ... )
>>anywhere...
>
>Curious; I'd never heard of that one before, and it would break an awful
>lot of shell scripts.  It's not a generic Ultrix problem, since the code
>from expire works fine on Ultrix on our 2100.

Its even stranger.  The problem only occurs when what is being
piped to mail is over a certain length, as is the case with the
-h and -r warnings.  This is rather fortunate, since you use
this method throughout c-news.  All of the one liners, etc., work
just fine.  I experimented by arbitrarily removing some of the
lines in question and, under a certain point, the body of the
message started appearing the delivered mail.  I didn't try to
find out if it was the total length of text or the number of
lines echoed that decided success.  Guess I'll talk to DEC.
-- 
Ken Spagnolo - Systems Programmer, Postmaster, Usenet Administrator, etc.
   Computer Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
K.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz  Phone: +64-63-69099 x8587  New Zealand = GMT+12