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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Nntpxmit error 0 (I have the answer & fix)
Message-ID: <16363@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 90 18:05:41 GMT
References: <1990Dec28.234730.8332@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <1990Dec29.034048.27998@ni.umd.edu> <pst.662588576@ack.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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In article <pst.662588576@ack.Stanford.EDU> pst+@ir.Stanford.EDU (Paul Traina) writes:
>If you look at your out-bound news, and see which messages are punting, you
>will notice that each one that fails has a ^? (delete) in it.  

The messages which passed through here actually had the eighth
bit turned on, 0xff.  This appears as DEL, 0x7f, in many pagers
and editors.  Some (broken) versions of putc() will extend the
sign and return -1.  If so, the correct fix, in my opinion, is
in putc() and not in your NNTP transfer program.