From:	AITGW::"little_c%CHO006.CHO.GE.COM@VM1.NoDak.EDU" "Chris Little" 15-JUL-1991 18:00:03.11
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Subj:	Re: Display problems w/ ANU-News V6.0-3

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From: Chris Little <little_c%CHO006.CHO.GE.COM@VM1.NoDak.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Display problems w/ ANU-News V6.0-3
To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS <ANU-NEWS@NDSUVM1>
 
> I have noticed two display problems with ANU-News V6.0-3.  The first completel
y
> puzzles me.  The second doesn't, only because I haven't investigated it yet.
.
.
> (2) When News displays an item there are three lines in the header.  The third
>     begins with the word "From:", displays the e-mail address, then there's a
>     comma followed by the organization description.  I've noticed that when
>     the organization description exceeds a certain length, (I'm not exactly su
re
>     of this length,) only the organization description preceded by a comma is
>     displayed on the third line.  Neither the word "From:" nor the e-mail
>     address are displayed.  I've noticed this running V6.0 and V6.0-3.  Anyone
>     familiar with this?
>
 
I don't know if the rest of you have this problem, but I'll post the fix
anyway.  There was a carriage return at the end of the "from address" field,
which remained inbetween it and the organization description.  I replaced the
carriage return with a null character before the organization description was
appended.  The relevant lines are highlighted with asterisks in the following
block of code which belongs to procedure "put_paste" in module NEWSDISPLAY. I
suspect the presence of carriage return has to do with the news software or
mailer used by the poster of the message.
 
  if ((!i) || (strspn(s," \t\r") == i)) {
    if (++(*h)) {
      if (!disp_h) {
        if (*subjline) put_line(subjline,0,level);
**      if ((temp_address = strchr (fromline, 13)) != NULL)
**          memset (temp_address, 0, 1);
        if (*fromline) {
          if (*orgline) {
            strcat(fromline,",");
 
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Chris Little    GE Fanuc Automation, Charlottesville, Virginia    (804) 978-6274
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