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From: John McCue <jmccue@fuzzball.jmcunx.com>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: tin: article stubs one line short
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:51:45 -0000 (UTC)
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Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
> When I post a new message in Tin 2.6.3, after I enter the subject
> and press Enter, Tin generates the "stub" of a new article and opens
> it in my editor (nvi) with `+7', which complains:
> 
>    -c option, 1: illegal address: only 6 lines in the file
> 
> And indeed, there are only six lines in the generated file:

Very odd.  What is VISUAL set to ?

Do you have an empty ~/.signature File ?  Maybe that is why.
Try creating a ~/.signature with 1 'real' line and see what
happens.  Or maybe delete file ~/.signature

Also check ~/.tin/tinrc and see if there is simething odd in
that.

<snip>

HTH

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