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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: bugfix for inews (control messages cause coredump)
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Date: 26 Oct 88 16:17:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: skip@claris.com's message of 26 Oct 88 01:11:16 GMT

skip@claris.com (Brian Schipper) writes:
   Hmmmm... After reading this I went and checked my news directory and I
   found the same thing.  This explains the mysterious random failure of

It would be mightily useful if those finding this problem would start
posting hardware/software configurations in use.  I have just checked
my systems and have no problems (no defunct .[ai]* files in
/usr/spool/news).  So it would seem to be a problem peculiar to
certain types of systems.

Pyramid 98x w/OSx 4.0 and 3B2/400 w/SysVRel3.0 are `clean.'

--Karl