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Article #854Re: Bug that bugs me
From: Barton E. Schaefer
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 00:38
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 00:38
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In article <1811@xenna.Xylogics.COM> loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
} In article <1709@vicom.COM> lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair) writes:
} > There is a very minor bug in mush that has been there from at least 6.1.
} > When I do a "mush -C -u news" and there is no mail for news, I get the
} > message:
} >
} > /usr/spool/mail/news: No such file or directory<my shell prompt>
}
} The reason you can't find the "No such file..." message is because its
} the text of ENOENT, not a string in mush.
[ Excerpt of code deleted ]
} You'll notice the '\n' *is* included there. The reason it gets "lost" is
} that curses has already been initialized by this point, such that CRMOD has
} already been turned off. It might suffice to move the initialization of
} curses to after all the initial processing (including selecting the folder).
The initialization code in main.c needs some reworking. However, I hacked
a quick fix for this particular bug, which will be included in Official
Patch #2, coming Real Soon Now (like tonight or tomorrow).
--
Bart Schaefer "And if you believe that, you'll believe anything."
-- DangerMouse
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!ogccse!schaefer From: schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: Bug that bugs me Message-ID: <2658@ogccse.ogc.edu> Date: 12 May 89 00:38:16 GMT References: <1709@vicom.COM> <1811@xenna.Xylogics.COM> Reply-To: schaefer@ogccse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer) Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 26