OS/2 won't give you that problem. Its just as happy with Unix style Text
as DOS style text.
Curtis
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Dan Liston wrote:
> If you are good at perl, you might check the scripts for header
> parsing. On a message that does not contain an "approved:" header line,
> the message is supposed to begin "after" the first blank line. The unix
> version of text files contain only a line feed at the end of every line,
> where dos/windows (maybe OS/2) will expect an additional character of
> carrige return. If your temp file has a blank line with just a line
> feed character between the headers and the body, the OS may be supposing
> the next character to be the carrige return and ignoring it.
>
> I am not enough of a programmer or perl guru to answer your question,
> and have replied to you via the majordomo-users list for others to
> possibly benefit from your question, or even provide help where I can't.
>
> Dan Liston
>
> John Poltorak wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:30:39PM -0500, Dan Liston wrote:
> > > But you cannot take perl out of the equation. Majordomo is ALL perl
> > > scripts, with the exception of wrapper, which is an attempt at keeping
> > > those scripts in their own sandbox.
> >
> > Actually I'm quite close to having some of 1.94.5 working on OS/2
> > with very little in the way of changes. The only problem seems to
> > involve file locking.
> >
> > One minor hiccup is that I've just posted a msg to a list and the
> > recipients lose the first character of the msg although it appears
> > in full in the temporary file.
> >
> > How would I output the msg body to STDERR whilst debugging?
> >
> > > Dan Liston
> > >
> > > John Poltorak wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:24:14AM -0500, Dan Liston wrote:
> > > > > The biggest question would be, what MTA is NT2000 using, and is the
> > > > > perl port for NT compatible with the unix version enough to allow
> > > > > majordomo to run. I would say it is possible, (with potentially a
> > > > > lot of blood, sweat, and tears) but an old 486 with 16M ram is all
> > > > > you need to be able to run a free unix OS and majordomo to stay
> > > > > within your budget.
> > > >
> > > > If you assumed that you could take Sendmail and Perl out of the
> > > > equation, because they were compatible with the Unix version,
> > > > what changes would be required to get Majordomo working under
> > > > NT?
> > > >
> > > > I ask this as I'm interested in running Majordomo on OS/2,
> > > > and I would expect that any Perl scripts which worked on
> > > > NT would also work on OS/2.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone has an NT version in the works I'd like to give
> > > > it a try.
> > > >
> > > > > Dan Liston
> > > > >
> > > > > "George R. Kasica" wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've got someone here that wants to use NT 2000 server as a mailing
> > > > > > list server....I work mainly in UNIX so I'm familiar with
> > > > > > majordomo....is there a version or way to get it running under NT or a
> > > > > > similar product that would perform the same function (hopefully low
> > > > > > cost)??
> > > > > >
> > > > > > George
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ===[George R. Kasica]=== +1 262 513 8503
> > > > > > President +1 206 374 6482 FAX
> > > > > > Netwrx Consulting Inc. Waukesha, WI USA
> > > > > > http://www.netwrx1.com
> > > > > > georgek@netwrx1.com
> > > > > > ICQ #12862186
> >
> > --
> > John
>
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