Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.0 release date

[Paul Fox]

ken wrote:
 > >I found this in my mailbox:
 > >[...]
 > 
 > I definitely remember that (and that's on mhonarc.org), but I don't
 > recall Richard ever marking something as 1.0.  He had a lot of 0.10, 0.20,
 > 0.25, etc etc releases.

well, it seems someone marked something as 1.0, because i just found
this, which implies i was able to download it:

 > Date:    Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:05:59 -0500
 > To:      address@hidden
 > From:    Richard Coleman <address@hidden>
 > Subject: Re: nmh 1.0 question 
 > In-Reply-To: Message from Paul Fox <address@hidden> 
 >       of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:14:25 EST." <address@hidden> 
 > 
 > part       text/plain                 995
 > > hello richard --
 > > 
 > > i have a question, prompted by having just picked up 1.0.
 > > 
 > > i seem to recall finding a bug in mh some time ago, that we may
 > > have corresponded about.  (i can't find the mail, so it may have been
 > > via comp.mail.mh.)  anyway, it had to do with doing an "inc" when
 > > the destination folder's filesystem is full, on linux.  as i recall,
 > > inc wasn't checking for errors properly during its fwrite/fclose
 > > sequence, and behavior that worked on many systems failed on linux,
 > > which (i think) didn't report errors on fclose() that had been previously
 > > reported on fwrite() (or perhaps, looking at inc.c, which had been
 > > reported on fseek()).
 > > 
 > > anyway, i think i may have noticed at the time that the mh-6.8.3 bug was
 > > still present in nmh.  i believe you said you knew about it, and
 > > had a fix planned.
 > 
 > I've been planning on doing an overhaul of the code in `inc', but
 > haven't found the time.  Maybe in the next month.
 > 
 > --
 > Richard Coleman
 > address@hidden

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 paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 34.0 degrees)