Re: 400 server busy breaks NEWNEWS.CMD

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From: Niel Kempson
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:00

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In article <840558665snz@dsl.co.uk>,
    Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk> wrote ...

> But should you need to make this fix: after all, isn't the spurious NUL
> (ASCII control characters' names are only two or three letters, not four)
> unwanted and also likely to confuse other implementations?

If news is sending out spurious NUL characters then it should indeed be
fixed.  In the meantime, the workaround that I proposed allows me and
other NEWNEWS.CMD users to fetch news.  (The workaround actually falls
into the category of defensive programming and is probably a sensible
addition anyway.)

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

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From: Niel Kempson <kempson@snowyowl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 400 server busy breaks NEWNEWS.CMD
Date: 1996/08/21
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