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From: mkg@whuxle.UUCP (Marsh Gosnell)
Newsgroups: net.test,net.news
Subject: Re: A Slice of Life from Bell Labs
Message-ID: <571@whuxle.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 15:57:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 20 15:57:09 1984
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Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany
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whuxle's conversion from 4.1 to 4.2BSD didn't go as smoothly as it
appeared.  All the news software recompile and seemed to be running
just fine until I got a call from a neighbor about strange error messages
in their log file (expected 6 lines got 2000...).

It turns out that /usr/include/sys/types.h was the 4.1 version instead of
the 4.2 version.  This yielded "interesting" results for file sizes from
stat(2) (the article size in the batch).  The problem was quickly corrected.

Perhaps unbatch and batch should pay more attention to premature EOF.
  Marsh Gosnell  whuxle!mkg