Re: Tin 1.7.3 Headers Question

Jeff Grossman wrote:
> I have the following item in my headers file:
> 
> # Add extra header lines to mail/news messages.
> # ie.  Organization: Bits & Bobs Inc.
> 
> And, it seems to be adding the:
> 
> # ie.  Organization: Bits & Bobs Inc.
> 
> line to all of the outgoing news articles.  How come it is reading that 
> line with the "#" comment character in front.  I believe this started with 
> either 1.7.2 or with 1.7.3.

If you think you have to use a development version, please read
the tin-dev mailing list. This bug has already been described and
fixed there:

| From: Urs Janßen <[email protected]>
| Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:54:11 +0100
| To: [email protected]
| Subject: Re: BUG REPORT tin 1.7.3 release 20031121 ("Eriskay") [UNIX]
[...]
| my fault, I commented out the code that ignores lines starting with a # as
| I didn't see any needs for that. just remove the /* and */ in
| post.c:msg_add_x_headers() line 3744:
| 
| 	if (line[0] != '\n' /* && line[0] != '#' */) {
| 
| and it should work again as expected