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mhn -store chokes on the following anonymous ftp ...

1992-10-23 23:43:10
Here's a message on which "mhn -store -part 2.1" failed.  Afterward
are the output of mhn and of a "manual" ftp session.

static char ident[] = "@(#)$Id: mhn.c,v 1.5 1992/02/18 17:36:22 jromine Exp $";

------- Forwarded Message

Message-Id: <199210230048(_dot_)AA16019(_at_)zephyr(_dot_)isi(_dot_)edu>
To: IETF-Announce: ;, rfc-dist(_at_)nic(_dot_)ddn(_dot_)mil
Subject: RFC1366 on Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space
Cc: jkrey(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary="NextPart"
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 17:47:59 PDT
Sender: List Manager <Postmaster(_at_)NRI(_dot_)Reston(_dot_)VA(_dot_)US>
From: " Joyce K. Reynolds " <jkrey(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu>


- --NextPart


A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

[ ... text deleted ...]

Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute

...

Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant Mail Reader
implementation to automatically retreive the ASCII version
of the RFCs.

- --NextPart
Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess"

- --OtherAccess
Content-Type:  Message/External-body;
        access-type="mail-server";
        server="mail-server(_at_)nisc(_dot_)sri(_dot_)com"

Content-Type: text/plain

SEND rfc1366.txt

- --OtherAccess
Content-Type:   Message/External-body;
        name="rfc1366.txt";
        site="nic.ddn.mil";
        access-type="anon-ftp";
        directory="rfc"

Content-Type: text/plain


- --OtherAccess--
- --NextPart--

------- End of Forwarded Message

Mhn output:
% mhn -store 64 -auto -part 2.1
storing message 64 part 2.1 as file /tmp/64.2.1.txt
Retrieve rfc1366.txt (content 2.1) using anonymous FTP from site nic.ddn.mil? y
    *****Login with username "anonymous" and password "guest"
    *****You may change directories to the following:
      ddn-news          - DDN Management Bulletins


Ftp output:
220-*****Welcome to the Network Information Center*****
    *****Login with username "anonymous" and password "guest"
    *****You may change directories to the following:
      ddn-news          - DDN Management Bulletins
      domain            - Root Domain Zone Files
      iesg              - IETF Steering Group
      ietf              - Internet Engineering Task Force
      internet-drafts   - Internet Drafts
      netinfo           - NIC Information Files
      netprog           - Guest Software (ex. whois.c)
      protocols         - TCP-IP & OSI Documents
      rfc               - RFC Repository
      scc               - DDN Security Bulletins
      std               - Internet Protocol Standards
220 And more!
Name (nic.ddn.mil:crawdad):



I suppose it's all those lines of chatter that bother mhn.

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