Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!munnari!natmlab!marka From: marka@natmlab.dms.oz (Mark Andrews) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: checkgroups with local groups fails under 4.2bsd derivatives Message-ID: <784@natmlab.dms.oz> Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 08:29:22 EST Article-I.D.: natmlab.784 Posted: Wed Dec 10 08:29:22 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 19:31:23 EST Organization: CSIRO Maths and Stats & Applied Physics, Sydney, Australia Lines: 7 Checkgroups fails due to problem with /bin/echo. Local newsgroup checking is introduced with a line of the form "-n group". This line is then echoed quoted at sed. The problem is that echo only checks the first two characters of the first arguement for "-n" and not the third for '\0'. So 'echo "-n 1234" 5678' will produce "5678".