Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!noao!terak!jb 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 Article-I.D.: terak.171 Posted: Wed Oct 10 13:08:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:12:49 EDT References: <5602@nlm-mcs.ARPA> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 27 > 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 uucp: ...hao!noao!terak!jb phone: (602) 998-4800 us mail: Terak Corp., 14151 N. 76th St., Scottsdale, AZ 85260