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Re: New Cab config files & news

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From: Guy Harrison
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
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 In article <818937306_OASIS_@flinny.demon.co.uk>
  Nick@flinny.demon.co.uk (Nicholas Flintham) said:-

> In article <819067100_OASIS_@its1984.demon.co.uk>
>  Larry@its1984.demon.co.uk (Secret Squirrel) said:-
>
>>>Its not really a binary its stik config files and lzhing it and 
>>>uuencoding it saved space rather do what other people do and post the 
>>>whole of there config files unarchived.
>>>
>>>Flinny.
>>> 
>>Good answer ;-)  
>>
>>Unfortunately your file won't uudecode (bad sequence).
>
>Yes I got a few emails about that one tis funny cos the original 
>message I have here works fine so I presume its been corrupted on the 
>upload to the news server. Since It seems some people didn't like me 
>posting the message here then anybody who wants it mail me and Ill 
>send it back.

Was this posted with NOS?

If it was then there's a bug in it when you post to news.

There's a printf(string) instead of printf("%s",string).

This is easy to confirm, post something with %% and if it appears as 
% then you've got it.

Hence the corruption (NOS 0.42).


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk

  
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From: guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison)
Subject: Re: New Cab config files & news
Date: 1995/12/16
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