Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!craigk
From: craigk@haddock.ISC.COM (Craig Kolb)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: news 2.11 ihave/sendme bug
Summary: Complete Nonsense
Message-ID: <5636@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 88 19:06:05 GMT
References: <5434@haddock.ISC.COM> <4544@rpp386.UUCP>
Reply-To: craigk@haddock.ima.isc.com (Craig Kolb)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <4544@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>In article <5434@haddock.ISC.COM> craigk@haddock.isc.com (Craig Kolb) writes:
>
>> [Some complete nonsense I wrote about ihave/sendmes and USG systems.]
>
> [...]  i don't have trouble with my primary feed though we
>are having trouble with the alt feed.  there is no fseek() present prior
>to the while() loop as would seem to be required.
>
>i've checked control for sendme's being sent out.  they are in deed
>being sent.

Yes, you're absolutely right; the original code is correct.  The "bug"
was with the ancient versions of USG-based operating systems that I
tested this on, not USG systems in general.  Bug-free USG systems do,
indeed, return the size of the file when one calls ftell() immediately
after fopening to append.

My apologies to anybody who spent time worrying about this.

Cheers,
Craig
cek@princeton.edu
craigk@haddock.isc.com