Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news problem:  spacefor script
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.180913.29468@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 18:09:13 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.153527.10070@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Mar10.204709.10460@panix.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar10.204709.10460@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>Henry Spencer suggests, in a followup message, that some old uuxqt's were
>sloppy about closing files. This is the case with A/UX, and (after months
>of headscratching) when I finally came up with a workaround, Richard Todd
>mentioned in a followup posting that MultiMaxes had this problem too.

My stars.  I'd thought that bug had been eradicated long ago; I mentioned
it just on the off chance.

>1) This script or something like it probably belongs in Cnews' contrib
>directory. There are a lot of ancient doddering UUCPs out there!

I'll take a look at it and consider this.  At the very least we need to
document the problem.
-- 
"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
for the general public."     -S. Harris |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry