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TOPS20 Change Order Number 4.2259

Written by: OSMAN		29-May-79 09:40:23

Edit checked: NO			   Document: YES
  TCO Tested: NO		Maintenance Release: NO
Hardware-related: NO

Program: RDMAIL
   Routines Affected:	rdmail

Related TCO's:
Related SPR's: 


Problem: RDMAIL

Diagnosis: LONG SWITCH NAMES

Solution: CHANGE /H MESSAGE TO "(/HELP FOR help)"

TOPS20 Change Order Number 4.2402

Written by: LCAMPBELL		15-Aug-79 17:41:39

Edit checked: NO			   Document: YES
  TCO Tested: NO		Maintenance Release: NO
Hardware-related: NO

Program: RDMAIL

Related TCO's:
Related SPR's: 


Problem: 
Lots of random mail bugs and difficult-to-maintain-code.
Symptoms include messages garbled, truncated, etc.

Diagnosis: 
Because of ancient mail conventions no longer in force, MAILER always
(tries to) write an integral number of words to MAIL.TXT.  So, then,
must FTPSER (for ARPA systems) and NMAIL (for DECNET systems).  MS and
RDMAIL (and any other mail processing system, like HERMES or MSG or MM...)
must be taught to ignore embedded nulls in messages...  it all gets to
be a royal pain.

Solution: 
Cause all programs which append to MAIL.TXT to append exactly the
correct number of bytes and not insert nulls.  This includes MAILER,
NMAIL, and FTPSER (although FTPSER already does the right thing and
so doesn't need to be changed).  This means that new RDMAIL won't
read Release 1 mail, and pre-release-4 RDMAIL won't read Release 4 mail.

TOPS20 Change Order Number 4.2441

Written by: R.ACE		 5-Sep-79 10:20:07

Edit checked: NO			   Document: YES
  TCO Tested: NO		Maintenance Release: NO
Hardware-related: NO

Program: RDMAIL

Related TCO's:
Related SPR's: 


Problem: WHEN LOGGING IN YOU CAN GET THE MESSAGE

%FILE CONTAINS UNDATED ENTRIES OR IMPROPER FORMAT.

USER HAS NO IDEA OF WHAT FILE THIS IS!

Diagnosis: RDMAIL ISN'T GIVING ENOUGH INFORMATION

Solution: CHANGE RDMAIL'S MESSAGE TO READ

%MAIL.TXT FILE CONTAINS UNDATED ENTRIES OF IMPROPER FORMAT.