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- From: phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: The woes of ^Z
- Message-ID: <05Jan93015103@miracle.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 05:51:03 GMT
- Article-I.D.: miracle.05Jan93015103
- Organization: Miracle Computer Consultants
- Lines: 27
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- jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused) writes:
- >tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
- >
- >> I think that if a ctrl z came in via news, then UUXQT would not finish
- >> reading that news file and you lose a lot of news. Is taht true?
- >
- > Now here's an issue. Are all the parts to Waffle behaving the
- >same with respect to ^Z?
- >
- > The post I had the problem with was from a mailing list,
- >gated to a local newsgroup. The user probably wrote the message
- >on an MSDOS machine with an editor which stuck on a ^Z. Since his
- >message was only one within a digest, I missed half the digest.
- >
- > If it *were* a news posting, I believe RNEWS would have stopped
- >processing, and the rest of the batch would have been lost. Is that
- >an issue? RNEWS should not be losing news just because of an
- >accidental ^Z.
-
- And I'd assume that you don't want to see your mailbox truncated because of
- an extra ^Z either.
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