donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley) (08/15/84)
Thanks should go to some anonymous beneficiary at site whuxle who managed to append a batch file of internal AT&T news to article <65@ur-valhalla.UUCP>. This boring little 6-line article was expanded into a 1200+ expose, revealing to the curious (or not so curious) outside world juicy details of AT&T's internal affairs, such as the heartbreaking struggle of outlying facilities to achieve vacation time parity with the aristocracy in New Jersey. Many a future sociology student will bless you for your kind deed, sir or madame. Better than the Pentagon Papers, Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@utah-cs.arpa 40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W (801) 581-5668 decvax!utah-cs!donn
wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (08/15/84)
Ah, how sad. The referenced article, supposed to have the secrets of the
ages appended to it, appears here only as follows:
Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 7/17/84; site ur-valhalla.UUCP
Path: brl-tgr!seismo!rochester!ur-valhalla!dave
From: dave@ur-valhalla.UUCP (Dave Carlson)
Newsgroups: net.test
Subject: junk
Message-ID: <65@ur-valhalla.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 11:56:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: ur-valha.65
Posted: Fri Aug 10 11:56:39 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 17:41:10 EDT
Distribution: net
Organization: U. of Rochester, EE Dept.
Lines: 6
junk is junk.
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Dave Carlson
{allegra,seismo,decvax}!rochester!ur-valhalla!dave
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How about putting the 1200-lines of secret goodies on net.sources for us
all to rifle through? (Duck! Cringe!)dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (08/18/84)
The 1200 lines of "secret goodies" did arrive in Waterloo. But most of it is truly boring, being abstracts of technical reports and similar stuff. Only about 2 or 3 articles referred to life in the labs.
mkg@whuxle.UUCP (Marsh Gosnell) (08/20/84)
whuxle's conversion from 4.1 to 4.2BSD didn't go as smoothly as it appeared. All the news software recompile and seemed to be running just fine until I got a call from a neighbor about strange error messages in their log file (expected 6 lines got 2000...). It turns out that /usr/include/sys/types.h was the 4.1 version instead of the 4.2 version. This yielded "interesting" results for file sizes from stat(2) (the article size in the batch). The problem was quickly corrected. Perhaps unbatch and batch should pay more attention to premature EOF. Marsh Gosnell whuxle!mkg