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From: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: News 2.11.17 breaks "batch"
Message-ID: <1424@vsi1.COM>
Date: 27 Jan 89 20:57:06 GMT
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Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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There is a major bug introduced by the 2.11.17 patches to batch.c.  The
"optimization" added to prevent having to do a full path lookup for each
file by doing a chdir(SPOOLDIR) can cause the site.work file not to be
properly updated when the batch exceeds the maximum size (because you
are not the correct directory).  I'm not sure if this will happen with
the distributed sendbatch, but it does happen with my script that calls
batch durectly.

I haven't tried to fix it yet; I just pulled the change.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com