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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Devilish bug in RN when out of space?
Message-ID: <2572@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 4 Aug 88 00:02:39 GMT
References: <670@stcns3.stc.oz>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <670@stcns3.stc.oz> dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall) writes:
: Fine.  The annoying thing is, both my .newsrc and .oldnewsrc got linked
: together (!!!), and truncated (!!!).  This is reasonably repeatable.
: 
: Known bug, Larry?  Known fix, anyone?

Yeah, known bug.  One of these years I might get bit hard enough by it to
fix it, but I haven't yet.  If anyone has a patch for it, feel free to
post it.  My next "patch" to rn will be a new version.

Larry