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Article #2411Re: New Cab config files & news
From: Guy Harrison
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
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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