Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!labrea!weening
From: weening@labrea.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problem with recnews
Message-ID: <22757@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 Jun 88 20:53:49 GMT
References: <22740@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: weening@labrea.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Organization: Stanford University
Lines: 23

I've discovered what was inserting the '\' characters into our "From"
lines (and "To" and "Subject" lines as well, if they contained '"'
characters).  The following patch to recnews.c fixes the problem:

*** recnews.c.old	Thu Dec  3 23:52:27 1987
--- recnews.c	Sun Jun 19 13:40:34 1988
***************
*** 389,394 ****
  				if (*cmd++ == '"') {
  					register char *bcp = cmd-1;
! 					while (*cmd && *cmd != '"')
  						*bcp++ = *cmd++;
  					*bcp = '\0';
  					cmd++;
--- 389,396 ----
  				if (*cmd++ == '"') {
  					register char *bcp = cmd-1;
! 					while (*cmd && *cmd != '"') {
! 						if (*cmd == '\\') cmd++;
  						*bcp++ = *cmd++;
+ 					}
  					*bcp = '\0';
  					cmd++;