Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SCO Bnews, C News, and ihave/sendme woes
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.023622.20823@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <339@lccinc.UUCP> <1991Jan19.011725.15029@convex.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 02:36:22 GMT

In article <1991Jan19.011725.15029@convex.com> schnoebe@convex.com (Eric Schnoebelen) writes:
>...The only time tht
>sendbatches fails is when one of its subcommands returns either an
>error value, or something on standard out/standard error (Have I got
>that right, Henry?)

Correct.  I don't know just what Ben's problem is, but my inclination would
be to follow Eric's suggestion:  track it through sendbatches and try to
reproduce it by running things "by hand".

>	If you try and run sendbatches with the "-x" flag on under sh,
>sendbatches will always fail, because the error logging file will
>non-zero in size...

*SIGH*.  I wish I could fix this, but I can't see any way.  I can't even
turn off -x in a fully portable way, which would at least dodge the issue.
(The obvious thing to do is to filter out lines starting with + before
checking the logging file, but this fails because many shells put out
the -x lines for a pipeline randomly interspersed with each other.)
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