Unofficial patch for B News 2.11.19

[Arnold D. Robbins]

Here is the unofficial patch I mentioned in the previous article.
Keep the original version of sendbatch!!

I have updated the copy I keep for uucp on skeeve, it has this patch
applied and the original sendbatch.sh in sendbatch.sh~.

Enjoy,

Arnold
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Subject: Bnews patch 19 breaks sendbatch
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Date: 5 Nov 89 00:37:38 GMT
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Patch 19 dies in the new test for bytes_this_batch due to bad
arguments caused by the variable du not being assigned to
anything.  I got sendbatch running again by assigning du to
be zero before the part where du gets assigned under special
conditions.  I don't have directories in /usr/spool/uucp
named after my usenet neighbors.  What is this for?
This patch to sendbatch.sh should be used after applying
patch 19.  I don't guarantee this will work (heck! Rick
didn't! :-).  It got my sendbatch going again at least.
(It's a good thing I have a guinea pig system to play with
or my batches would really be piling up!).  The first
hunk is the important one.  In the second, I only added
a few `"' marks which really aren't that important.  They
are however on the two lines that in sendbatch that choked.
	--Bill Davidson

*** sendbatch.sh.old	Tue Oct 31 20:34:18 1989
--- sendbatch.sh	Sat Nov  4 16:24:41 1989
***************
*** 86,91 ****
--- 86,92 ----
  		fi
  	fi
  
+ 	du=0
  	if test -n "$MAXBATCH" -a -d /usr/spool/uucp/$rmt
  	then
  		du=`du "/usr/spool/uucp/$rmt" | sed 's/	.*/000/'`
***************
*** 114,121 ****
  
  	# make sure $? is zero
  	sentbytes=0
! 	bytes_this_batch=`expr $MAXBATCH - $du`
! 	if test $bytes_this_batch -gt $MAXPERRUN
  	then
  		bytes_this_batch=$MAXPERRUN
  	fi
--- 115,122 ----
  
  	# make sure $? is zero
  	sentbytes=0
! 	bytes_this_batch="`expr $MAXBATCH - $du`"
! 	if test "$bytes_this_batch" -gt $MAXPERRUN
  	then
  		bytes_this_batch=$MAXPERRUN
  	fi

-- 
Arnold Robbins -- The Basement Computer		| Laundry increases
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