howard@cpocd2.UUCP (03/27/87)
When following up an article with 'f' or 'F', you get the prompt: Prepared file to include [none]: If, in answer, you type an accidental ' ' (space), followed by <RETURN>, rn hangs up. It appears to be searching for file " " or something. I eventually got out of this after a pile of ^Cs and <RETURNS>s, with an error message saying something had been appended to my dead.letter file. -- Howard A. Landman ...!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard
wtm@bunker.UUCP (04/02/87)
In article <537@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes: >When following up an article with 'f' or 'F', you get the prompt: > > Prepared file to include [none]: > >If, in answer, you type an accidental ' ' (space), followed by <RETURN>, >rn hangs up. It appears to be searching for file " " or something. >I eventually got out of this after a pile of ^Cs and <RETURNS>s, with >an error message saying something had been appended to my dead.letter >file. In the shell script, "Pnews", somewhere around line 245, there is a line: $cat $file >> tmpart With $file being what was just read from the user. Since this was a space, this is the same as: $cat >> tmpart which is reading from standard in. One fix would be to change that line to: $cat "$file" >> tmpart which would then cause an error message. Bill McGarry Bunker Ramo, Shelton, CT PATH: {philabs, decvax, motown, fortune, yale}!bunker!wtm