rn 4.3 doesn't tolerate disk quota exceeded

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From: Garry Wiegand
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1986 23:53

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I'm running rn 4.3 and news 2.11 on a BSD 4.3 Gould. I was editing an 'f'
followup when I exceeded my disk space quota and my (dumb) editor crashed
followed immediately by rn locking up (either a spin or keyboard trouble;
not sure.) I killed the login shell, returned, and discovered that my .newsrc 
file was completely empty. I eventually discovered the existence of 
".oldnewsrc" but by then it was empty too.

Inasmuch as we have >300 newgroups nowadays, reconstructing the .newsrc
from scratch was a trifle painful.

Could we please arrange that rn grab a "lot" of space for its files to start
(and truncate on exit) to avoid quota problems?

Also, why was the .newsrc completely empty??

Arrrgh.

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)

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From: garry@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Garry Wiegand)
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Subject: rn 4.3 doesn't tolerate disk quota exceeded
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Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 18:53:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  4 18:53:09 1986
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