I received two answers
from "Lavelle, Bryan" <Bryan.Lavelle_at_compaq.com>
> I believe this is caused by a change in the libc.so file
and from Bob Vickers <bobv_at_dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
> I submitted a service request on this in July. Compaq reproduced the
> problem, but I haven't heard anything since.
It seems that we have to wait until Compaq has fixed this problem
(why wasn't it done with the November patch kit ??).
Best regards,
Matthias Reichling
Computing Center
Univ. of Wuerzburg
reichling_at_rz.uni-wuerzburg.de
Original Posting:
> 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 ?
Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 15:56:22 NZDT