>Number:         3277
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       mail thinks 33,000 line messages have a negative # of lines.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar  2 20:50:01 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Seebach
>Organization:
Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
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>Release:        About last August
>Environment:
System: NetBSD taniemarie 1.2C NetBSD 1.2C (SEEBS) #0: Sat Mar 1 03:26:00 CST 1997 seebs@taniemarie:/usr/src/sys/arch/amiga/compile/SEEBS amiga

(Actually, it's my other machine)

>Description:
	For a large file, mail says
	>N  1 cjs@portal.ca         Sun Mar  2 22:21 -32732/2000397
	(and wc -l says 32,805)
>How-To-Repeat:
	Get Curt to send you an ungzipped kernel (because the gzipped
	one was corrupt) and run mail.
>Fix:
	s/short/long/, I assume.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: