[14403] in Athena Bugs

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Re: Obscure Athena finger bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 24 01:46:20 1996

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 01:46:16 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, rel-eng@MIT.EDU,
        ambar@cesium.clock.org (Whose fault
	it really must be!),
        nocturne@MIT.EDU, aellwood@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3460] in Release_Engineering"

> Recently, I just happened to notice that if one of the first fifteen
> characters of your .plan file lines up with a corresponding
> character in the string ``%MENTION-MAIL% '' (including the newline),
> that character gets elided from the .plan file.

I've applied most of the patch you sent (there appeared to be an
unnecessary style change as well as the functional change).  It should
show up in 8.0D.

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