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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "vn" disk space leak?
Message-ID: <26034@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 2 Dec 88 01:55:05 GMT
References: <203@libove.UUCP>
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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<203@libove.UUCP>, by root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove):
> I use the "vn" news reader to read news, incidentally on a SCO Xenix
> 2.2.1 /286 system, and I find that it has a file, hidden somewhere
> (I think it opens the file and then unlinks it, so it can be extended
> but an "ls" will not give its length as other than zero, or soemthing

I don't know about hidden files, but on Ultrix, vn (04/88 version)
creates lots of temp files in /usr/tmp that it fails to clean up.
I think you get one of these every time you Mail or Followup to an
article (as I'm presently doing).

Mike Khaw
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