After the upgrade of our systems to Tru64 UNIX 4.0F, I observed
the following strange behavior with /usr/bin/news:
Most of the news cannot be read because there are added some extra
characters.
So I get the message
Cannot open /usr/news/tex.newsÐÀÿ
With
news -n | od -c
I see
0000000 n e w s : t e x . n e w s Ð v
0000010 \b À ÿ 003 \n
0000015
Of course the file is /usr/news/tex.news without the strange characters
at the end.
All worked fine with the same files under Digital UNIX 4.0B and 4.0E.
There are no problems if the filenames are less than 8 characters long,
but longer names are filled with garbage until 14 characters are reached.
Filenames longer than 14 characters are truncated to 14 characters
(this was also the case with Digital UNIX 4.0B and 4.0E).
Any ideas ?
Best regards,
Matthias Reichling
Computing Center
Univ. of Wuerzburg
reichling_at_rz.uni-wuerzburg.de
Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 15:45:28 NZDT