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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,att.news
Subject: Re: Responses to netnews articles mailed from 'vnews' lost!
Message-ID: <218@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 20:26:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 20:26:13 1984
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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Another thing which may or may not be relevant.  Sometime last fall I posted
a suggested bugfix to the reply and follow shell scripts. A ^Z stop signal
given in vnews after a reply will cause the mailer or even the uucico that the
mailer spawned to stop with possible nasty consequences (readnews also has this
bug).  This bugfix involved having the shell script add signals 18, 19, and 21
to the list of signals to be ignored.  Unfortunately in order for this to work
"sh" has to be recompiled with MAXTRAP in defs.h set to 32 rather than 17, to
let the shell recognize the existence of these signals (I regard this as a
bugfix to sh.  I don't understand why the shell as distributed with 4.X BSD
doesn't recognize that these signals exist.  Sure, sh doesn't want to do full
job control but it could at least allow one to ignore the job control signals).

Therefore if by some chance one has been using reply of followup shell scripts
with my modifications but have not made the necessary changes to sh, then
replies will be lost.  This broke vnews at many sites (mine included) when the
shift from BSD 4.1 to BSD 4.2 was made because the sh distributed with 4.2
did not include the necessary change.

This has been a long hiatus since my last posting.  After several months
working on the 4.1 --> 4.2 conversion at astrovax I have it about 60% back
to working as well as it did under 4.1.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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