Rn bug -- saving articles
Ken Turkowski
ken at turtlevax.UUCP
Tue Mar 19 05:22:35 AEST 1985
In article <5540 at ucbvax.ARPA> jdi at ucbvax.UUCP (John D. Irwin) writes:
>I'm having a problem with the recently (well, I guess not so recently :-)
>posted RN news reader. I believe I have made all the fixes that were posted.
>
>The problem is this -- when you save an article to a Mailbox type file, it
>does not work. The problem is that the line comes out like:
>
>From bambi at behind-the-green-door.SMUTNET
>
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> Notice -- NO DATE.
>
>I have CONDSUB defined, so I'm using the 'larger' MBOXSAVER define in common.h
>-- but for some reason it isn't groking the date.
>
>Suggestions?
>
>--
>John D. Irwin
>ucbvax!jdi
>jdi at berkeley.ARPA
>jdi at psuvax1.BITNET
I've solved this by invoking "date" in mbox.saver. I use:
( /bin/echo -n "$8 "; date
instead of:
( /bin/echo "$8 "
The whole text follows below:
#!/bin/sh
# $Header: mbox.saver.SH,v 4.1 84/09/24 12:00:56 lwall Exp $
#
# $Log: mbox.saver.SH,v $
# Revision 4.1 84/09/24 12:00:56 lwall
# Real baseline.
#
# Revision 4.0.1.2 84/09/12 15:21:16 lwall
# Check for sh interpretation.
#
# Revision 4.0.1.1 84/09/04 15:09:34 lwall
# Fixed for Eunice "symbolic" links.
#
# Revision 4.0 84/09/04 09:51:29 lwall
# Baseline for netwide release
#
#
# Arguments:
# 1 Full name of article (%A)
# 2 Public news spool directory (%P)
# 3 Directory of current newsgroup (%c)
# 4 Article number (%a)
# 5 Where in article to start (%B)
# 6 Newsgroup name (%C)
# 7 Save destination (%b)
# 8 First line of message, normally From...
#
export PATH || (echo "OOPS, this isn't sh. Desperation time. I will feed myself to sh."; sh $0; kill $$)
( /bin/echo -n "$8 "; date
/bin/echo "Article $4 of $6:"
/usr/ucb/tail +$5c $1 | /bin/sed "s/^From/>From/"
/bin/echo ""
/bin/echo "" ) >> $7
--
Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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