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From: jb@terak.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Floating exception (core dumped)
Message-ID: <171@terak.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 13:08:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 13:08:42 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:12:49 EDT
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> I've been having trouble reading net.jokes - every so often I'll get a
> message with 0 lines in the body, and if I try to skip it I get the
> above error message. It also leaves my terminal in a wierd state, not
> quite c-break mode but close: return prints as ^M, but backspace works
> normally. Not all messages with 0 lines cause this; occasionally one
> that claims to have no lines actually has several, or even many. Does
> anyone else have this problem? It's really annoying because my .newsrc
> file is not updated. I posted here because the problem seems to be
> strictly net.jokes (and this isn't a joke), but if no one has any
> help, do ya'll know of some other newsgroup that might be appropriate?
> 
> 				thanks,
> 					- rene

I'm having same problem except only occurs when trying to read those zero
length articles.  Not just in net.jokes, either.  reset seems to
reset the terminal to normal, saving the zero length article to a file
shows it to not be zero lenght, looks normal   ????


John Blalock

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