Re: A Serious bug?!?! It may have happened to you!

Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:36:56 -0700

Yngvar Folling <yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no> wrote:
|> Of course to send mail, I to had rename MAIL to MAIL.MSG (original MAIL.MSG was
|> already sent). Anyways, this explains why I sometime do not get replies from
|> people! I don't know how many times this may have happened!
|
|Did this work? I'm surprised, because MAIL without suffix appears to be
|slightly different from MAIL.MSG. They both contain a series of
|messages prefixed by a four-byte size indicator, but in YARN folders
|(such as MAIL) that is in big-endian, while SOUP files (such as
|MAIL.MSG) have them in little-endian order. Or maybe the other way
|around, I keep confusing the terms.
|
|Yngvar

Hi Yngvar,

It worked for me. Only thing is that I'm not sure if it was sent out
correctly, but uqwk showed it was sent out. I think it did get sent out
though.

Thanks for your explaination. I now make sure there is now MAIL file in my
zip file before I sent out my mail.

Gary