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From: simon@its63b.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: uuhosts and mod.map
Message-ID: <260@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 08:51:38 EST
Article-I.D.: its63b.260
Posted: Fri Feb 13 08:51:38 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Feb-87 05:43:28 EST
References: <2413@mtgzy.UUCP> <112@hobbes.UUCP>
Reply-To: simon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ECSC68 S Brown CS)
Organization: I.T. School, Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K.
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Keywords: incompatible?
Xref: utgpu news.admin:143 news.software.b:259

In article <112@hobbes.UUCP> root@hobbes.UUCP (0000-Admin(0000)) writes:
>In article <2413@mtgzy.UUCP> ecl@mtgzy.UUCP writes:
>>[...] I ran "uuhosts -setup" and got messages like the following:
>>> x - d.att
>>> /usr/lib/news/mapsh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
>>> /usr/lib/news/mapsh: syntax error at line 1: `abflx' unexpected
>>> ...
>>> /usr/lib/news/mapsh: syntax error at line 1: `ucbvax' unexpected
>>> /usr/lib/news/mapsh: !Funky!Stuff!: not found
>>
>
>From the above, it looks like:
>	1) mapsh is a 'shar' file (an archive set up as a Bourne Shell script)
>	    - and -
>	2) your system is trying to use csh to unshar it.
> [etc...]
>
>  John

I think not, somehow - those error-msgs are Bourne-shell messages.

I sounds more like its a shar-file with some junk at the top (ie, someone
forgot to remove the header lines at the "-- cut here --" place [or whatever]).

Simon.

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Simon Brown
Department of Computer Science
University of Edinburgh
Scotland, UK.

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