v18i058: mush - Mail User's Shell, Part01/22

Barton E. Schaefer schaefer at ogicse.ogi.edu
Thu Apr 25 14:31:32 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr24.220750.15603 at robobar.co.uk> ronald at robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
} Should there not be a
} 
} 	realname = buf;
} 
} at line 61 of init.c ?  It seems to lose my name without it :-(

No, but line 75 should read (realname && *buf), not (realname && *realname).

} Also, regarding line 411 in hdrs.c, 
} 
} >   if (show_to && strncmp(p, login, strlen(login)))

My copy says !strncmp(p, login, strlen(login)) ....

} question:  what is the strncmp for?

The original definition of the TO: processing was just to show you the
recipient of messages you sent from the local machine, not messages you
may have sent to yourself from elsewhere.

} Would it do any harm to delete the strncmp ? 

No.
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Z-Code Software Corporation                             schaefer at cse.ogi.edu



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