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Date: Mon, 18-May-87 09:13:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 18 09:13:12 1987
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Approved: taylor@hplabs (with 'postmail')

well among the graduate students.  Again, I don't know why, but I can
guess:
Path: decwrl!hplabs!hpcea!hpccc!okamoto
From: okamoto@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm 1.5b savecopy bug
Message-ID: <7820001@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 15 May 87 18:07:28 GMT
Organization: Corporate Computing Center
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Description:	
	There is a bug in savecopy.c that does not allow a copy of
	outgoing mail to be saved to a non-existent file.  This is
	due to a mismatch in passed argument types to can_open().

Repeat-By:
	In $HOME/.elmrc, set copy to ON and savecopy to 
		a non-existent file.
	elm to anybody.
	You will get an error message "permission to append to
		<savecopy file name> denied!

Fix:
	Pass the correct argument.

*** savecopy.old	Fri May 15 10:53:40 1987
--- savecopy.c	Fri May 15 10:56:15 1987
***************
*** 79,85
  	    strcpy(savename, savefile);
  	}
  
! 	if ((errno = can_open(savename, WRITE_ACCESS))) {
  	  dprint(2, (debugfile,
  "Error: attempt to autosave to a file that can't be appended to!\n"));
  	  dprint(2, (debugfile, "\tfilename = \"%s\"\n", savename));

--- 79,85 -----
  	    strcpy(savename, savefile);
  	}
  
! 	if ((errno = can_open(savename, "a"))) {
  	  dprint(2, (debugfile,
  "Error: attempt to autosave to a file that can't be appended to!\n"));
  	  dprint(2, (debugfile, "\tfilename = \"%s\"\n", savename));


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The New Number Who,	hpccc!okamoto@hplabs.hp.com
Jeff Okamoto		..!hplabs!hpccc!okamoto
Hewlett-Packard Corporate Computing Center

P.S.	Steve, please inform the net of the correct mail address
	to send any future patches to.
P.P.S.	Thank God for diffc!  SysV is brain damaged!