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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP Servers
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Date: 30 Dec 90 12:26:24 GMT
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In <5954@orchid3.UUCP>, king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King) writes:
>In article <1990Dec27.141152.8028@ericsson.se> etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se writes:
>>[The editor] would be a very possible error source, if it wasn't that I get the
>>same result if I don't edit the file at all. Now it looks more like a
>>problem with Sun's mailtool here, but it has worked perfectly once (on
>>HamSharp)...
>
>Try editting the file.  Just scan through it once, looking for defects.
>Corruption is often easy to see and sometimes simple to correct, say if you've
>got a blank line in there or something.

Another possibility are what look like 'short lines', but are actually lines
that end with one or more spaces. MailTool won't mung a file this way, but you
never know where the file has been before it got to you. It could have come
through a machine/program that strips off trailing spaces.

-larry

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