ed and sys files

jean@decvax.UUCP (Jean Wood) (11/04/83)

I used /bin/ed to edit our (decvax) sys file in /usr/lib/news.  Compugraphic
has a rather large line (about 400 char's).  Ed, with no warning, deleted
that and all following lines.  Watch out.

(Compugraphic doesn't like to get a lot of stuff...)

The following systems missed one day of news (11/3):
	cg-d, utzoo, unh, linus, tektronix, dartvax,
	vortex, and sultan.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
	Armando.

darrell@drux3.UUCP (Darrell McIntosh) (11/04/83)

We run 2.10.1 here at AT&T-ISL in Denver.  I noticed that if a line in
my sys file was too long inews would abort.  I got around this by
splitting the line for a system in half.  Each half was in the same
format as if the line had been shorter, i.e.,
systemname:groups:flags:command|filename.  This, however, wouldn't
work for the current system as inews evidently reads only the first
line and uses it for the current system.
-- 
Darrell McIntosh, AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
(303) 538-3212, {ihnp4|hogpc}!drux3!darrell

aps@decvax.UUCP (Armando P. Stettner) (11/05/83)

We have been running news 2.10.1 for some time with the sys
file mention this morning with no problems.  In a previous version,
(I think it was 2.8 or 2.9) the news broke and it was fixed
by a local patch (suggested by research!alb).
	aps.