[404] in Zephyr_Bugs
xzwrite and "message,personal,Printer Daemon"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Aug 4 19:12:32 1992
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 19:12:13 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: dimitri@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-zephyr@Athena.MIT.EDU
A while back, you filed this bug report:
>To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
>Subject: vax 7.3P: xzwrite
>Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 16:19:16 EST
>From: Dimitri Jason Panagiotou <dimitri@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>
>System name: asprin.mit.edu
>Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3P
>Display type: SM
>
>What were you trying to do?
>Get rid of the Printer Daemon destination from xzwrite's dest. list
>which appears when you print something...
>
>What's wrong:
>.xzwrite.dest cannot handle spaces in destinations. Therefore,
>!message,personal,Printer Daemon
>has absolutely no effect
>
>What should have happened:
>It should handle spaces in names, since zephyr can.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>xzwrite(1)
I have done a little investigating, and it turns out that this bug
report is incorrect for two reasons:
1) Xzwrite unsubscriptions (lines in .xzwrite.dest beginning with '!'
are effective only when initially reading .anyone and .xzwrite.dest.
They have no effect on subscriptions generated on-the-fly as a result
of the autoReply feature of xzwrite.
2) Xzwrite does, in fact, handle spaces in destinations. If you widen
the xzwrite window enough after getting a zephyr message from the
printer daemon, you will see that the entire destination is there, not
just the word "Printer".
I am therefore going to resolve this bug report; there doesn't seem to
be any bug at all.
Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance
