Azehntel.117
net.news
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!berry
Wed Dec  9 15:26:31 1981
Possible bug in B news
There appears to be a bug in the readnews code for the followup command.
In readr.c, just before forking and execing the inews program,
readnews puts backslashes in front of all punctuation.  This causes
it to try to exec "\/usr\/bin\/inews", which genereates a message to the
effect that "/usr/bin/inews: not found".  The same error occurs
if I try to type "\/usr\/bin\/inews" as a shell command.  I suppose the
fix is to make the program put the backslashes in front of all
punctuation EXCEPT the command name.  Ick.  I know some of
you guys have it working, what did you do?  Or do we just have a weird
csh?

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