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Re: Line wrapping in lugnet.cad.dat files
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:43:25 GMT
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:16:07 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:

legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) writes:

Yup, that's how newsreaders cancel things -- they send a special control
message inside a new article and the server figures out what to do.

Um....  When I tried to cancel, I got an error message back saying posts to lugnet.cad.dat MUST
have raw dat file data in them.

LOL!!  :)  Ooops, duh, that's my fault...it should certainly make exceptions
for control messages, shouldn't it.  I'll log that as a bug.  Thanks for
discovering and reporting.

I feel like a beta tester...
:-)

Hmmm....  OK, so I tried again, but this time I pasted a
single line of dat data into the body.   It went through that time.

Cool, good idea.  Nice workaround.  :)


Will that screw things up?

Apparently not.  :)  And in theory, it _shouldn't_, because the part that
checks whether the message is a cancel/control message is separate from the
part that checks for .dat content.  Each check doesn't [currently] know
about the other.


So far, the post is still there on the web page.

The web-interface isn't yet too bright about noticing cancelled posts at the
group-summary level, but if you go in and click on the article -- i.e.,

  http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad.dat:50

then it should tell you,

  Article 50 does not exist in group lugnet.cad.dat.

p.s.  Forgot to set your line length back down to a <80 value...

Dang.  You mean it _must_ be less than 80?
I thought I might be able to leave a comfortable margin in there.
Guess I'll have to use my trusty o'l memory to remember to... ah,  to.. what
were we talking about?

What about those occasional posts where the text just keeps going off to the
right side?  Are those posts made from the web?  And is that the users fault or
something with the web interface?

-- Terry K --



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(...) Cool, you can test away some more then, if you like... With regard to logging it as a bug, I thought about the problem a bit more and decided to fix it right away rather than queueing it up. The same part of the code which checks for special (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) LOL!! :) Ooops, duh, that's my fault...it should certainly make exceptions for control messages, shouldn't it. I'll log that as a bug. Thanks for discovering and reporting. (...) Cool, good idea. Nice workaround. :) (...) Apparently not. :) (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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