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From: dcm@busch.UUCP (Craig Miller)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: weirdness in rotated net.jokes
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 07:58:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 07:58:17 1985
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Organization: Anheuser-Busch Companies - St. Louis Missouri
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Keywords: doubled subject lines

> has anyone else noticed doubled subject lines in jokes which are rotated?

Yeah.  I believe this is a bug in 2.10.2.

If I remember right, the bug is in the function modify_article() in
postnews.c.  Modify_article() uses a global character array `buf',
to read through a file, and `buf' is also used as an argument to it
when postnews tries to stick the "ROT13" in the subject.  So `buf'
gets trashed.  A solution could be to declare a local character array
`buf' inside of modify_article().

		Craig
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