Bug 166659

Summary:	TCSH doesn't print # of messages in mail alert
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Billy McCarthy <billy>
Component:	tcsh	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Bill Huang <bhuang>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	shillman
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Description Billy McCarthy 2005-08-24 13:53:18 UTC

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Description of problem:
When new mail is found TCSH does not report it properly, instead printing 
'You have You have %smail.
mail.'
In /usr/share/local/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh lines 184 and 185 do not have a space between %s and mail, it reads '%smail'.  Which I believe is the source of this error.  Just adding the space creates a new problem though.  

After editing that file, if the user tries to cd into a non-existent directory the error message is wrong.  It is simply 'e.', or if trying to cd into a non-existent directory with a * after it, ie tmp*, 'tmp*: s.'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tcsh-6.13-9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run tcsh
2. wait for new mail to arrive.
3. OR, edit /usr/share/local/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh 
4. and try to cd into a directory that doesn't exist
  

Actual Results:  after 2: 
'You have You have %smail.
mail.'

after 4: 
'cd tmp
e.' 
OR 
'cd tmp*
tmp*: s.'


Expected Results:  After 2: 'You have mail'
After 4: 
'cd tmp
tmp: No such file or directory.'
OR
'cd tmp*
tmp*: No match.'

Additional info:

Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2005-08-24 19:13:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165643 ***

Comment 3 Suzanne Hillman 2005-08-24 19:16:29 UTC

Sorry; I pattern matched on the weird mail error, and noticed the strange errors
when a directory doesn't exist after I closed as dup.

Comment 5 Miloslav Trmač 2005-08-29 16:44:04 UTC

The catgets() catalogs in /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh are binary files
and editing them will most likely corrupt them, so the strange error messages are
not suprising.

The mail reporting issue is a code bug (not fixable by editing the catalogs)
and will be fixed in RHEL 5.

Thanks for your report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165643 ***