rn 4.3 patch #25

[guido at boring.UUCP]

In article <2219 at sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall at sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:
>	4)  When the disk gets full, inews can lie about the success of
>	    the posting, and up to now Pnews would happily delete the
>	    temporary file thinking all was well.  The temporary file is
>	    now kept around in your DOTDIR until the next invocation of
>	    Pnews/Rnmail.

Note indeed that it says *until* the next invocation of Pnews/Rnmail.
I wanted to be clever and typed the pathname of this file in reply to
Pnews question 'File to include (none): '.  Nope.  Didn't work.  Guess why?

cat: input /userfs2/abc/guido/News/.article is output

Moral: move $DOTDIR/.article to a safe place before fiddling with it.

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	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
	guido at mcvax.UUCP