16. Requesting files

For filerequests one can use the perl-script ifreq which is located in /ifmail/misc/contrib. Some DOS-request-processors have a problem with a missing linefeed at the line's end. This patch should fix this:

--- ifreq~      Sat Aug  6 14:41:28 1994
+++ ifreq       Sat Oct  8 12:05:09 1994
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
# open the flofile for appending
open(FLOFILE, ">>" . $reqfile) || die "can't open $reqfile";
while (@files) {
-                       print (FLOFILE shift(@files), "\n");
+                       print (FLOFILE shift(@files), "\r\n");
}
close(FLOFILE);