postnews/inews

[Jay A. Konigsberg]

I recently created a simple line editor and released it to the public
domain. Its a solid piece of code, however, there is something strange
that is happening when its used with postnews/inews on a 3B2/400 under
System V Rel 3.1.

Postnews seems to be doing its job ok, as a saved version of a post will
be ok. However, once it gets posted the first line of text will always
be deleted - no matter how many blank lines there are. Needless to say,
this does not happen with vi.

My guess is that inews is clobbering the line when it adds its header
information (like Lines: ##). I don't have access to section 8 of the
manual set where inews is described.

Please respond by e-mail as this is a rather obscure problem and should
take as little band width as possible.


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