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From: jns@fernwood.mpk.ca.US (Jerry Sweet)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C News's defhdrs.awk - a problem
Message-ID: <9102201101.AA22311@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Date: 20 Feb 91 11:04:21 GMT
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I received this message from sendbatches when trying to test an
ihave/sendme setup:

	./sendbatches: batching togo.1 for `asylum.ihave' failed
	awk: hdrval is not an array
	/usr/local/bin/inews: /dev/null/dead.article: cannot create
	./sendbatches: aborting

The relevant code appears to be in NEWSBIN/inject/defhdrs.awk.  Has
anyone seen this problem before?  Is it a bug in our vendor's awk, or
perhaps something in the ihave/sendme setup?  The "problems" file
mentions a few known problems with awk implementations, but nothing
about this particular gotcha.