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From: dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: /usr/ucb/Mail bug remains under SR10
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Date: 18 Aug 89 19:19:06 GMT
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This morning I wrote:

> Out of curiosity, I sat down this morning and executed /usr/ucb/Mail on
> our experimental SR10.1 node.  I was dismayed to find that when you use
> the ~h excape to modify the header fields, the previous contents of the
> fields are discarded.  This bug has been on the known bug list at
> Apollo for years!  I can't believe ...
> ...[further whining deleted]

It has just been pointed out to me that the node on which I did this
test is not completely set up properly, and the version of Mail I
tested was in fact the SR9.7 one.  I found the SR10.1 version of Mail
and tried it -- it works fine; the bug is fixed.  My apologies for the
misinformation.

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
	(619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis