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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: bugfix for inews (control messages cause coredump)
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Date: 29 Oct 88 22:40:00 GMT
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In article <25756@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
: 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.

Sun 3/280, SunOS 3.4 fails.
Sun 3/280, SunOS 4.0 seems to fail, but there may be other causes.
Zenith 386, latest Microport UNIX seems OK, but I'll check in a few days.

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Bill
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