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From: rjnoe@uniq.UUCP (Roger J. Noe)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: 2.11 vnews core dumps when reply/followup tried
Message-ID: <138@uniq.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 10:26:41 EST
Article-I.D.: uniq.138
Posted: Mon Nov 17 10:26:41 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Nov-86 01:33:36 EST
Organization: Uniq Digital Technologies, Batavia, IL
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Keywords: 2.11 news vnews reply followup core dump
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Environment is a PDP-11/44 running UNIX System V Release 2.0.  When trying
the 'r' or 'f' commands in vnews, I get the error message "Memory fault -
core dump".  Before trying to debug the code myself, I'd like to see who
else might be having this problem.  Just for information, the localize.sh
script I used is appended to this article.

Another thing about vnews in 2.11 that I don't like is that it removes your
old .newsrc file and creates a new one - with the current real user and
groups id's and mode controlled by N_UMASK in defs.h.  It doesn't preserve
the i-node information left in the old .newsrc.
	Roger Noe			ihnp4!uniq!rjnoe
	Uniq Digital Technologies	(312) 879-1566
	28 South Water Street
	Batavia, Illinois  60510

**localize.sh**
rm -f Makefile
cp Makefile.dst Makefile
chmod u+w Makefile
ed - Makefile  <<'EOF'
g/^#USG /s///
g/^#V7 /d
g/^#VMS /d
g/^#BSD4_[123] /d
g/^TERMLIB/s/-ltermlib/-lcurses/
g/^HOME/s/^/#/
g/^UUXFLAGS/s/-r -z//
g/^SCCSID/s/^/#/
g/^CFLAGS/s/$/ -Dvoid=int/
w
q
EOF
rm -f defs.h
cp defs.dist defs.h
chmod u+w defs.h
ed - defs.h <<'EOF'
/ROOTID/s/10/128/
/N_UMASK/s/000/002/
/HISTEXP/s/4/2/
/DFLTSUB/s/"[^"]*"/"all"/
/TMAIL/s,^,/\* ,
/PAGE/s,/usr/ucb/more,/usr/local/bin/more,
/NOTIFY/s/usenet/news/
/DFTXMIT/s/-r -z //
/UXMIT/s,^,/\* ,
/SPOOLNEWS/s,/\* ,,
/INTERNET/s,/\* ,,
/UNAME/s,/\* ,,
/DIGPAGE/s,^,/\* ,
/MYORG/s/"[^"]*"/"Uniq Digital Technologies, Batavia, IL"/
/NICENESS/s,/\* ,,
s/4/2/
/SMALL_ADDRESS_SPACE/s,/\* ,,
w
q
EOF