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From: david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: sendbatch fails on +m option [ + patch ]
Message-ID: <3863@wiley.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 03:35:47 GMT
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 37

Whan I tried to use the +m option to sendbatch to remove the MAXBATCH
restriction, a test in the batching loop failed.  Quoting the arguement
fixed the problem.  Also, there was no way to change MINDF from the
command line, so I added a -f option.

-David

*** sendbatch.sh.old	Fri Jan 27 13:35:32 1989
--- sendbatch.sh	Wed Feb  1 19:25:25 1989
***************
*** 59,64 ****
--- 59,66 ----
  		continue;;
  	+D*)	SPOOLDISK=''
  		continue;;
+ 	-f*)	MINDF=`expr "$rmt" : '-f\(.*\)'`
+ 		continue;;
  	esac
  
  	if test -n "$SPOOLDISK"
***************
*** 104,110 ****
  
  	# make sure $? is zero
  	sentbytes=0
! 	while test $? -eq 0 -a $sentbytes -le $MAXBATCH -a \
  		\( \( $sentbytes -eq 0 -a -s $BATCH/$rmt \) -o \
  		 -s $BATCH/$rmt.work \)
  	do
--- 106,112 ----
  
  	# make sure $? is zero
  	sentbytes=0
! 	while test $? -eq 0 -a $sentbytes -le "$MAXBATCH" -a \
  		\( \( $sentbytes -eq 0 -a -s $BATCH/$rmt \) -o \
  		 -s $BATCH/$rmt.work \)
  	do