Re: bug when article contains NULs

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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:35:10PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:

| I attach here an offending message first as seen when telneting to the nntp
| port and second as seen by trn (saved from a tmp file of trn). If the NULs
| are not visible in the first file, it may be your pager's or editor's fault,
| many of those do the same mistake and skip them. At least less-381 displays
| them as ^@ but colors in inverse, like:

Note that I am seeing exactly the same problem, with the same cause ...

Whenever I view this guy's posts, trn just hangs like this --


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austin.forsale #262939 (0 + 3 more)                                                                 [1]
From: "tom meny" <tmeny@austin.rr.com>
[1] PC Games for sale
Date: Mon Dec 08 11:01:56 CST 2003

Call of Duty $30
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City $25
Unreal Tournament 2003 $15

tmeny@hotmail.com


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I have to ^Z out of it and kill trn -- ^C won't work.

I didn't notice the nulls at first, but when I saw your post, I went
looking for them, and there they were.

I've attached my script (hopefully this mailing list allows
attachments), but it shows about the same thing ...

Running the same version of trn -- Trn version: 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).

-- 
Doug McLaren, dougmc@frenzy.com                       DTA - Death To Acronyms!
Script started on Mon Dec  8 12:18:33 2003
[~] dougmc@algol % telnet news-server.austin.rr.com 119

Trying 24.93.43.119...

Connected to news-server.austin.rr.com.

Escape character is '^]'.

200 Welcome to the Road Runner news server.  Contact help@rr.com for support (Tornado v1.0.2.342)
GROUP austin.forsale
211 776 261905 262948 austin.forsale
HEAD 262939
221 262939 <882Bb.117340$do1.17017@twister.austin.rr.com>
Path: be1.texas.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!twister.austin.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail
From: "tom meny" <tmeny@austin.rr.com>
Newsgroups: austin.forsale
Subject: PC Games for sale
Lines: 8
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300
Message-ID: <882Bb.117340$do1.17017@twister.austin.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:01:56 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.175.24.165
X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com
X-Trace: twister.austin.rr.com 1070902916 24.175.24.165 (Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:01:56 CST)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:01:56 CST
Organization: Road Runner - Texas
Xref: cyclone.austin.rr.com austin.forsale:262939
.
body 262939
222 262939 <882Bb.117340$do1.17017@twister.austin.rr.com>


Call of Duty $30
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City $25
Unreal Tournament 2003 $15

tmeny@hotmail.com



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quit
205 GoodBye
Connection closed by foreign host.

Exit 1
[~] dougmc@algol % ^Dexit

Script done on Mon Dec  8 12:19:01 2003

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