Re: Problems with yarf

From: Andrew Hodgson (andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 22:22:01 +0100

In article <19991006114432.D865@ptw.com>, rex <rex@ptw.com> wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>Email to the address you're posting from bounced. I'll try again.

its andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:29:40PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
>[...]
>>
>> ; YARF 1.5 config file - Yarn "From:" Header Mangler...
>> ;------------------------------------------------------
>> ; Now a list of things to search the header for and the From: header
>> ; to use if a match is found. Searches are case insensitive.
>> ; the format below is "search string"::"new from header", so first
>[...]
>> "^x-sendor: Andrew"::"andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk (Andrew Hodgson)"
>> "^x-sendor: joe"::"joe@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk (Joe Hodgson)"
>> "^x-sendor: lucy"::"lucy@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk (Lucy Hodgson)"
>[...]
>
>Don't you want to be looking for "^sender: Andrew", not
>"^x-sendor: Andrew", etc (note the spelling)?

Oops, that shouldn't have made a difference though.
>
>> As I said before, this is the yarf.log file after posts should have
>> gone through correctly:
>>
>> -*= Yarn! Yarf! [DOS] 1.5 =*-
>
>The log file is a single line? What did it look like when it was
>working?

It had all the messages, the line that had been filtered and the new from
address that was replaced, I can't give you more detail as I don't have one now.
>
>> It used to work correctly until I changed machine, don't see any
>> reason why it aint working now.
>
>Could it be the speed problem again? Yarf is written in Turbo Pascal,
>IIRC. It's possible the error message is being displayed so briefly
>that you don't see it. Does Yarf! run OK from the command line?
>(I'd test it, but I run Linux/Mutt/Jed these days)

No it isn't. I cannot find any of the problems that I was told to look for in
the executable.

-- 
Sincerely,
Andrew.

"Programming graphics in X is like finding sqrt(pi) using Roman numerals." -- Henry Spencer