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NetProb ticket #1893, decmips 7.6G: listmaint

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wdc@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 28 17:35:51 1994

From: wdc@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 17:35:40 -0400
To: jweiss@MIT.EDU, bug-moira@MIT.EDU
Cc: 

>From jhbrown@MIT.EDU Wed Jun 22 20:25:35 1994
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>To: bugs@MIT.EDU
>Subject: decmips 7.6G: listmaint
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 20:25:30 EDT
>From: Jeremy Brown <jhbrown@MIT.EDU>
>
>System name:		puttanesca
>Type and version:	KN02ca 7.6G (1 update(s) to same version)
>Display type:		PMAG-DV 
>
>What were you trying to do?
>	update characteristics of a list: specifically, change 
>        jhbrown-list-3 to aweb in name, and also owner from 
>    	USER jhbrown to LIST aweb
>
>What's wrong:
>	it choked trying to change owner to LIST aweb, saying
>  	no such list by that name existed.
>
>What should have happened:
>	It should have changed the list name to aweb _before_
>	it tried to update its ownership to correspond to the
>	intuition the screen gave by requesting the one piece of
>	data before the other.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>	The manpage has no relevant info.
>

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