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- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!erc
- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: SLS Mail/News?
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
- References: <722494613snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.095133.13016@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:51:33 GMT
- Lines: 45
-
- Jim Segrave (jes@grendel.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : In article <1992Nov22.150653.1148@sol.UVic.CA> you write:
- :
- : > Also, anyone using .98p5 will need to remove the seg fault upon code
- : > writes in order to use mail. I tried finding the place in mail where
- : > this happens, but if I run it from "gdb" it doesn't happen :-<.
- :
- : grep for mktemp in the sources. Find the string which is the first
- : parameter 'lettmp' is one such. Find the definition of this parameter and
- : if its of the form char *lettmp = "...", change it to char lettmp[] = "...",
- : Then go find any extern's referencing the variable in any other files and
- : make sure they are declaring them as extern char lettmp[]; (or whatever),
- : not extern char *lettmp;
- : Fix resolve() in sendrmt.c. If it doesn't find the usr/libs/pathalias
- : file (or some such), resolve drops off the end of the function without
- : returning a valid pointer (it should be NULL).
- : The code for mail is an atrocious - a good sample of why C has a bad
- : name in the rest of the programming world.
-
- Better yet, don't use it at all. the mail included with mailpak-1.3 was
- intended to be a provisional measure until a better solution could be
- found. Get smail-3.1.28 - it's a much better mailer.
-
- mail will *not* be included in mailpak-1.4, BTW...I've stopped using it
- long ago.
-
-
- I don't agree with your assertion that C has a "bad name in the rest of the
- programming world". Is your programming world composed of programmers
- writing COBOL applications? C gives one the ability, the freedom, to write
- any manner of code desired. If one wants to write beautiful code, the
- opportunity is there. If one wants to write ugly code, C will not stop you.
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
-
- "There is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You're already enlightened, and
- all the words in the world won't give you what you already have. The wise
- seeker, therefore, is concerned with one thing only: to become aware of what
- he already is, of the True Self within." -- Zen maxim
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
-
- "There is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You're already enlightened, and
- all the words in the world won't give you what you already have. The wise
-