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sun4 9.2.28: "from" doesn't compensate for tabs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Jun 25 20:23:57 2004

To: bugs@mit.edu
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:23:52 -0400
Message-ID: <udlk6xvcgkn.fsf@multics.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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System name:		multics.mit.edu
Type and version:	UltraAX-i2 9.2.28 (with mkserv)
Display type:		unknown

One of the messages sitting in my inbox (spam, as it happens) contains
a literal tab in its Subject header; "from" naively assumes it will
consume only one column, so the line listing that message ends up
wrapping.  Not that big a deal, but I figured I might as well report
it.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
Finger amu@monk.mit.edu (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

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