rn 4.3 patch #25
guido at boring.UUCP
guido at boring.UUCP
Tue Aug 6 07:53:08 AEST 1985
In article <2219 at sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall at sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:
> 4) When the disk gets full, inews can lie about the success of
> the posting, and up to now Pnews would happily delete the
> temporary file thinking all was well. The temporary file is
> now kept around in your DOTDIR until the next invocation of
> Pnews/Rnmail.
Note indeed that it says *until* the next invocation of Pnews/Rnmail.
I wanted to be clever and typed the pathname of this file in reply to
Pnews question 'File to include (none): '. Nope. Didn't work. Guess why?
cat: input /userfs2/abc/guido/News/.article is output
Moral: move $DOTDIR/.article to a safe place before fiddling with it.
--
Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
guido at mcvax.UUCP
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