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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: New! Improved! Line-Eater bug!!
Message-ID: <916@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 01:50:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.916
Posted: Mon Oct 20 01:50:57 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 22:43:38 EDT
References: <653@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <653@dg_rtp.UUCP> throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
>The Line-Eater lives!!!  Well, not *THE* line eater, mind you.  Just a
>distant relative.  This one likes to munch on articles from the end
>towards the beginning.  The basis for this one's snacking habits are
>also not known.  Nor its unnatural habitat.  I noticed this mangled
>article in mod.comp-soc
>
>
>The article really seems to have about 80 lines (actually
>79-and-a-partial), and seemed to be truncated at 3669 characters
>(excluding header), and 4158 with header.  It is possible that at some
>intermediate node the article size was exactly 4096 at the cut-off
>point, which might be interesting.

Any reason not to assume it's the boring (but painful) 'oops, excuse me
while my spool filesystem fills up' syndrome?  Sure would be nice if this
new 2.11 stuff purges articles that had errors on writing to disk, rather
than leaving them lay about for re-transmission...
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
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Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)