Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!shadooby!wisner
From: wisner@shadooby.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: rn is being a very naughty lad
Message-ID: <196@shadooby.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 89 05:10:56 GMT
Reply-To: wisner@shadooby.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner)
Organization: Amnesia International
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In my rn startup file is a very nifty regular expression that makes rn
print the subject, article length and author, nicely columnated, whenever
I type '='.

This regular expression has been following me around for many, many months
now. And rn has always gotten along with it quite nicely.

But now rn has decided that it doesn't want to play any more. After I've
been reading news for a short period of time, rn decides to spontaneously
combust after I have typed '='. It does so with a SIGIOT.

So far this has always happened while rn was scanning a message without a
Reply-To header. It has also only happened on the first unread message
of a newsgroup; this may or may not be irrelevant.

A not-terribly-comprehensive inspection of the situation with gdb suggests
that rn thinks there is a reply-to header present, but kicks off when it
tries to read that reply-to header and discovers that it is indeed not
there.

Has this bitten anyone else before? It would really be awfully nice to be
able to use my very favorite regular expression once again.

Shadooby is a Sun 3 with SunOS 3.4.