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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: clever ruse
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 13:45:52 EST
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In article <6493@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>Ron Natalie thought of a clever way to get rid of the
>annoying appending to "author_copy" that "postnews" does.
>Plant a symbolic link called "author_copy" to /dev/null!

  We just changed the code so that instead of appending to ~/author_copy
it would write it over. This way only the last message is kept in this
file. The change is very simple: just change the mode in the xfopen call
from "a" (append) to "w" (write).
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    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell