Aour3b.106 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!harpo!vax135!houxi!houxg!lime!we13!our3b!wcb Sun Mar 28 12:51:39 1982 problem with mailing replies I have only been receiving news for less than a week now, so maybe this particular problem has already been covered, but I will plunge ahead anyway. My problem is in use of the 'reply' response in readnews. Let me state initially that this is USG Unix (4.0) and the /bin/mail source has an sccs delta of 1.5. News works it's way through several machines to get to us, so any reply sent through mail has a long argument of system names to get back to the originator of the news. It seems that by the time uux had set up it's files for uucp to transmit, the argument was truncated at about 40 characters. Obviously the news would not get to it's destination. The problem seems to be in /bin/mail. In a routine called sendrmt(), there are two buffers called 'cmd' and 'rsys'. Both of these character arrays are subscripted with 64. By the time this routine is exited, the information is lost. I compiled a temporary version of mail with these two arrays increased to 128, and it seemed to work alright. Of course, if the next machine down the road has the same problem, and the path is sufficiently long, it will still be messed up on that machine. Any help with this problem would be appreciated. Bill Bevans ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.