[comp.mail.mush] duplicate 1st message

braun@dri.com (Kral) (05/14/91)

I've noticed a bug in mush 7.2.2, so I started perusing this group to see if
there was any mention of it.  I haven't seen it, but I haven't been looking
long either, so feel free to flame me if this has been brought up before.

I've seen this happen on occasion; it's sporadic, so I don't know how to
reliably reproduce it.  The symptoms are this:  When you bring up mush, and
there are > 1 messages, the first message will occasionally get duplicated into
the second message; eg, message 1 and message 2 are identical.  If you 'x' out
of mush and bring it back up again, everything is OK, which means it's not the
mail spool file which is munged, but Mush's idea of what's in it.

My environment is this: Ultrix 4.1 Rev 52 running Mush 7.2.2.  I run 'screen',
which gives me virtual consoles, and in one of them I run a program (script)
which waits for something to appear in my spool file, then brings up mush.

I suspect the problem occurs when mush is started with only one message in the
file, but others come in before I start reading.  I will see if I can confirm
this.


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