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Re: [KA9Q/2 2.17d/os2.260] Bug in archie client ?

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From: Niel Kempson
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <825017573snz.3874@grempc.demon.co.uk>,
    Graham E Kinns <Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk> wrote ...

> I was having a nose through the source for the native OS/2 KA9Q and
> was just having a fiddle to see if the archie client would fit into a
> cut down version of the Dos build.  Using djgpp/gcc just to check
> things a bit more closely than BC4, it spotted the following, line
> #897 of archie.c, within the function processline() :
[...]
> there's no matching variable ptr for the last field.  A quick look at
> the archie 1.4.1 source suggests it could be replaced with '%*ld' to
> skip the magic number field.

Thanks, I'll add this to release 2.70 along with a few other bug fixes
related to font handling.

Niel
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Snowy Owl Systems Limited
E-mail: kempson@snowyowl.co.uk (Internet)
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