Problem with newsetup

Greg Woods woods at ncar.ucar.edu
Wed Aug 24 07:47:03 AEST 1988


In article <519 at ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> tar at ksuvax1.UUCP (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>The newsetup script called by rn to create your .newsrc file the first time
>you use rn doesn't work correctly. 

>and then prints:
>
> Too many files in w commands
> cat: cannot open /tmp/n.misc99
>			  ^^ this varies

   This is because there is a sed script in the middle of newsetup that does
too many "w" commands. This breaks on Pyramids too. The fix is to simply
split it into two separate sed commands.

--Greg



More information about the Comp.sources.bugs mailing list