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From: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b
Subject: Re: news.2.10.3
Message-ID: <220@epicen.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 19:59:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 19:59:32 1985
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Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Summary: 2.10.1 from Berkeley distribution has line eater bug

> From: hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Steve)
> Date: 20 Sep 85 12:13:55 GMT
> 
>   We are running news.2.10.1 as it came off of the 4.2 BSD distribution tape
> (early 1984).  Please no flames; as a faculty member who ended up being the
> de facto news administrator, I didn't have time to convert to news.2.10.2.
> I would like to know if it will be possible to go right to news.2.10.3 when
> it hits the net.  Thanks.

I have been told by two independent sources that the 2.10.1 version on at
least some of the Berkeley distribution tapes contains the infamous line-eater
(maybe it should be called "buffer-eater", since it really eats the first
1024 characters of the message body) bug. Will one of the more experienced
net gurus correct me if I'm wrong?  Is there a simple patch that will correct
the bug?
-- 
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