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From: wtm@bunker.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Bug in "rn"
Message-ID: <1828@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 23:56:08 EST
Article-I.D.: bunker.1828
Posted: Wed Apr  1 23:56:08 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 16:36:23 EST
References: <537@cpocd2.UUCP>
Reply-To: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
Organization: Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company, Shelton, CT
Lines: 33

In article <537@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>When following up an article with 'f' or 'F', you get the prompt:
>
>	Prepared file to include [none]:
>
>If, in answer, you type an accidental ' ' (space), followed by <RETURN>,
>rn hangs up.  It appears to be searching for file " " or something.
>I eventually got out of this after a pile of ^Cs and <RETURNS>s, with
>an error message saying something had been appended to my dead.letter
>file.


In the shell script, "Pnews", somewhere around line 245, there is
a line:

	$cat $file >> tmpart

With $file being what was just read from the user.  Since this was a space,
this is the same as:
	$cat  >> tmpart
which is reading from standard in.

One fix would be to change that line to:

	$cat "$file" >> tmpart

which would then cause an error message.


				Bill McGarry
				Bunker Ramo, Shelton, CT

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