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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Problem with newsetup
Keywords: rn sys5
Message-ID: <623@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 88 21:47:03 GMT
References: <519@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <519@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.UUCP (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>The newsetup script called by rn to create your .newsrc file the first time
>you use rn doesn't work correctly. 

>and then prints:
>
> Too many files in w commands
> cat: cannot open /tmp/n.misc99
>			  ^^ this varies

   This is because there is a sed script in the middle of newsetup that does
too many "w" commands. This breaks on Pyramids too. The fix is to simply
split it into two separate sed commands.

--Greg