Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site down.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!down!north From: north@down.FUN (/*NOTREACHED*/) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd,net.news.b Subject: line eater bug in 4.2 news distribution? Message-ID: <265@down.FUN> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 22:54:12 EDT Article-I.D.: down.265 Posted: Thu Aug 9 22:54:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 04:29:28 EDT Organization: The Official Fun Machine of Princeton Univ. EECS Lines: 9 is there any truth to the rumor that the copy of netnoise distributed with 4.2 BSD is an old version, having the infamous """"line eater"""" bug? this is NOT a joke. i heard it from astrovax!wls who debugs DMA device drivers with his bare teeth. there seems to be a corollary of the north/honey ("netnews is a slow-moving parody of itself") thesis applying to 4.2bsd, but that is left, as they say, as an exercise for the student. /*NOTREACHED*/