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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: unable to abort replies
Message-ID: <496@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 21:57:26 EST
Article-I.D.: astrovax.496
Posted: Tue Nov 20 21:57:26 1984
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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> > And, by the way, the basis for
> > the program checking further should be "file is the same size", not "file
> > has not grown"!  Some people are actually thoughtful enough to pare down
> > the base note before adding the followup.
> > -- 
> > Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
> 
> Well, if you're going to look at file size, the criteria for throwing
> away the followup/reply probably should be "file is same size OR file is
> zero size", since some of us are used to deleting the contents of the
> editor buffer and writing it out when we don't want it sent after all,
> since that's what you had to do with 2.10.1.

I think that that should be "file is same size OR file is zero size OR
file is 1 byte" since some editors (like vi) will write out a single
newline when one throws away the editor buffer.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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