Re: Working on the install-mh change questions

2002-11-18 Thread Greg Hudson
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 22:47, Eric Gillespie wrote: Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. If the $HOME environment variable is set, mypath is copied from the getenv return. Why? It's never changed. 4. If the $HOME environment variable is not set, mypath is copied from the

Fencepost in m_getfld()

2000-08-08 Thread Greg Hudson
We recently found a piece of mail which causes show or scan to dump core under Linux. The cause appears to be a fencepost in the part of m_getfld() which reads the header name. ("m_getfld.c, my old nemesis, we meet again.") The code sets up bp to be a pointer into the file's read buffer and j

Re: Fencepost in m_getfld()

2000-08-08 Thread Greg Hudson
Is "fencepost" the same thing as "boundary condition"? I don't believe I've heard your term before. Yes. Refers to the easily-missed question of how many fenceposts there are in a ten-foot fence if there is one post per foot. Thanks, Greg, but this was fixed way back in May 1999 (nmh 1.0