Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!chip From: chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: uucp maps were received here trashed Message-ID: <1070@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG> Date: 13 Mar 90 05:33:38 GMT Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin (yay!) Lines: 72 The following uucp maps were received at chinacat trashed: u.can.1 u.can.2 u.deu.3 u.dmk.1 u.gbr.1 u.gbr.3 u.isl.1 u.usa.ca.3 u.usa.ca.4 u.usa.ga.2 u.usa.il.1 u.usa.ma.2 u.usa.ma.4 u.usa.mi.2 u.usa.nc.1 The symptom is that one or more newlines were inserted into these maps. The only commonality I can see is that the insertions occur at word boundaries -- never in the middle of a word. It is not long lines triggering them. The section of the path in common for all the bad maps is: chinacat!bigtex!texsun!newstop!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!...!rutgers!pleasant It is not obvious where the problem occurred. Of the 142 maps currently on chinacat, some of the not-obviously-bad maps have visited sites in this path. Here is the breakdown of which maps traversed which hops (only those hops in the paths of >=5 bad maps are included): possibly definately hop traversed good maps bad maps by this map 127 15 pleasant -> rutgers 101 15 texsun -> bigtex 101 15 sun-barr -> newstop 101 15 newstop -> texsun 101 15 bigtex -> chinacat 60 15 cs.utexas.edu -> sun-barr 19 8 usc -> cs.utexas.edu 3 6 rutgers -> usc By the way, when I say "bad", I mean that pathalias gave a syntax error, and when I say "possibly good" I mean that pathalias didn't complain about it. The particular errors I received here are: "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.can.1.Z", line 356: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.can.1.Z", line 457: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.can.2.Z", line 454: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.deu.3.Z", line 626: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.dmk.1.Z", line 1089: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.gbr.1.Z", line 1620: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.gbr.3.Z", line 1159: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.gbr.3.Z", line 1390: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.isl.1.Z", line 172: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.isl.1.Z", line 314: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ca.3.Z", line 1883: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ca.3.Z", line 632: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ca.4.Z", line 1871: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ga.2.Z", line 650: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.il.1.Z", line 166: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.il.1.Z", line 1910: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ma.2.Z", line 1093: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ma.4.Z", line 74: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.mi.2.Z", line 500: syntax error "/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.nc.1.Z", line 581: syntax error -- Chip Rosenthal | Yes, you're a happy man and you're chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG | a lucky man, but are you a smart Unicom Systems Development, 512-482-8260 | man? -David Bromberg