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From: jshortle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John Shortle)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: rn problems on a Sequent Symmetry
Message-ID: <906@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 20 Apr 89 15:56:49 GMT
Reply-To: jshortle@jarthur.UUCP (John Shortle)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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Hello.  We are running rn version 4.3.1.4 on a Sequent Symmetry 81, Dynix
3.0.12.  We are having a few subtle problems:

1)  rn does not append to save files.  If one tries to save a message onto a
file that already exists, rn responds:
      Caught a SIGSEGV--.newsrc restored
      Illegal instruction
(exit to shell)

2)  rn does not let one resume from a stopped job.  If one stops rn (^Z) from
any level below the newsgroup selection level and tries to resume, rn
responds:
      rn
      rn read error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

      Caught an internal error--.newsrc restored
(exit to shell, job/process killed)

We formerly ran the same version of rn on a Vax 11750, 4.3bsd, and did not 
have any of these problems.  Does anyone know how to fix these problems?
Please reply by E-mail.  Thanks.

John Shortle