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Re: missing the last letter in my posts



Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Tyler Smith, as noted in my signature. I was wondering why
> people were often referring to me as Tyler Smit, or previously as
> Tyle. Then I realised that my signature was getting truncated by one
> letter. I'm using slrn, with my messages edited in emacs. Anyone know
> what's happening?
> 
> I just checked and it seems that all of my latest  messages to
> debian.user are missing the last letter, but messages sent to
> gmane.comp.lang.r.general are not, despite using the same config files
> for slrn for both.

There was a thread about this in news.software.readers in October 2004. 

  Newsgroups: news.software.readers
  From: Lars Stokholm <stokh...@despammed.com>
  Subject: Re: slrn 0.9.8.1 is out
  Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:16:54 +0200
  Message-ID: <slrn.cmtgkm.1gs@stokholm.dyndns.dk> 
  
  Thomas Schultz wrote:
  
  > That's the point. slrn was assuming that each line in the file is
  > terminated by a newline and I tested it only with editors that put a
  > newline at the end of the file. 
  >
  > So, either put a newline at the end of your files or use the patch at
  > <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.1-lastchar.diff>

-- 
Stephen Chadfield



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