bug#2161: 23.0.90; Another failure to convert to mbox

[jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk>]

I am attempting to convert my main mail file (96Mb) to mbox format.
It stpped after 105 messages having joined tne next message to it, and apparently losing the other 17K messages

I cannot see anything wrong with the message being converted
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Summary-line: 26-Jan  to: jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk  [21] #Re: Look_for_quad
Date:     Fri, 26 Jan 96 10:17:20 GMT
From:     jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk
Subject:  Re: Look_for_quad
To:       jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk

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Date:     Fri, 26 Jan 96 10:17:20 GMT
From:     jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk
Subject:  Re: Look_for_quad
To:       jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk

Message written at 26 Jan 1996 08:14:40 +0000
--- Copy of mail to hearn@rand.org ---
In-reply-to: <9601250123.AA13977@hilbert.rand.org> (message from Tony Hearn on
	Wed, 24 Jan 96 17:23:56 -0800)

It looks as if it has decided that the form is a quartic, but then
later finds that the x^2 term has a zero coefficient.  It looks as if
I fail to deal with sqrts of perfect squares; I assume that the form
sqrt(x^2) has been simplified before it gets to this code.  At one
level this is a simplification failure, or I could accept that it
happens and treat degenerate cases.  A very simple paliative would be
to add a line "if null numr a then return nil" in look_for_quad, after
the line commented "Re-centre".  The integral then fails, but does not
crash.  I will give it a little more thought.

==John
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Summary-line: 26-Jan       jhd@maths.bath.ac.uk  [10] #Can I recommend
Received: from haldane1.maths.bath.ac.uk by omphalos.maths.Bath.AC.UK
          id aa27004; 26 Jan 96 15:35 GMT
Date:     Fri, 26 Jan 96 15:34:41 GMT
From:     James Davenport <jhd@maths.bath.ac.uk>
To:       algebra@maths.bath.ac.uk
Subject:  Can I recommend

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Date:     Fri, 26 Jan 96 15:34:41 GMT
From:     James Davenport <jhd@maths.bath.ac.uk>
To:       algebra@maths.bath.ac.uk
Subject:  Can I recommend

(not necessarily for all the details, but the style)
"The Hich-hikers Guide to Grobner Bases"
~jhd/TeX/Others/1326.ps.Z

James
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These two message are treated as one
I have hacked all the other mail mail files to mbox, but this one has me totally confused.



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