spew compilation problem.

[Charlie Geyer]

In article <1632 at naucse.UUCP> jopsy at naucse.UUCP (JO.hn P.hillip C.rane) writes:

>    For some reason, when I unshared the 'spew' program found in alt.sources
> the vertical bar characters were removed.  This was a slight problem on
> two lines in spew.c.

  [two corrections deleted]

> The other problem, lies in the 'headline' data file.  It seems the vertical
> bars are missing from there as well, causing all sorts of ugliness when
> the program tries to produce output. (I.E. bad pluralizations and suffixes,
> if any).
> 
>   If someone received this program, with proper vertbarization, could they
> please mail me the correct 'headline' file? 

It arrived here without vertical bars too.  I sent e-mail about it to the
original poster, but maybe it didn't get there.

I too would like a correct copy of the headline data file.

The head lines are funny.