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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!psuvax1!postscript.cs.psu.edu!fenner
- From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
- Subject: Re: TRUNCATED BATCH(es)
- Message-ID: <BtK8nH.7C0@cs.psu.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet)
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- Organization: Penn State Computer Science
- References: <0u3TPB2w165w@willard.UUCP> <oZPwPB3w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:18:52 GMT
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- In article <oZPwPB3w165w@ruth.UUCP> rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
- |dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
- |
- || rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
- |
- || > I was getting the same messages during my testing of my Fidonet-Usenet
- || > gateway. After generating messages to port, rnews complained about truncat
- || > batch, and also "echoed" the last read data from the file again.
- || >
- || > After some investigation, I determined that the problem was that I was
- || > generating files with CRLF pairs instead of the UNIX-style LF terminators.
- || > After fixing my software to generate LFs, this problem went away.
-
- Er, this just occurred to me -- Did you count the CR/LF pair as 2 bytes in
- your #! rnews line, or not? If not, then this was your bug, not Waffle's.
-
- Bill
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