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Re: Bug that bugs me

#854
From: Barton E. Schaefer
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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From: schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
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Subject: Re: Bug that bugs me
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Date: 12 May 89 00:38:16 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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