Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Roff in C bugs? Message-ID: <782@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 20:34:45 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.782 Posted: Sat Jan 5 20:34:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 07:09:23 EST References: <1155@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 17 > [] > The posted version of this program does not work and was apparently > never tested. As posted, any request at the beginning of a text file > causes the whole file to be skipped because of a logic error in the > basic input routine, called "suck()." It is well named. Leading > spaces do not cause a line break since the logic to do this is missing. > Blank lines disappear. Doubtless there are other bugs as well. > > Pity. Would have been useful. It was tested, but not thoroughly. Anyway, you're right about the line breaks - not implemented. I haven't been able to duplicate the problem with a request at the beginning of the file. Can you give an example? -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel