Acbosgd.2087 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Mon Mar 1 17:16:02 1982 a funny glitch Andy Tannenbaum and I just tracked down a news problem which was really weird. Inews was core dumping. Adb said it was dumping in history, in a place where it couldn't be core dumping. (fgets would have had to return non-null but with no newline on the end of the buffer.) Turns out his history file (from a previous version of netnews) had a bunch of null characters in it. A line beginning with a null would cause fgets to return as described above. So if it happens to you (please send me mail - I'd like to know if nulls in history files is widespread) the fix is to vi your history file and write it back. That will strip out the nulls. Or just cp /dev/null /usr/lib/news/history Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.