From c0618aec6e0b2b6ea3c3b5c1aa207180ec0f83c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ron Koenderink <rkoenderink@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:09:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (news, fina): Report bad conditionals as syntax error. 
 Closes #775475.

---
 src/lib/commands/fina.c | 3 ++-
 src/lib/commands/news.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/commands/fina.c b/src/lib/commands/fina.c
index 9ca0383e..0998b92c 100644
--- a/src/lib/commands/fina.c
+++ b/src/lib/commands/fina.c
@@ -57,13 +57,14 @@ fina(void)
 	pr("Loans are not enabled.\n");
 	return RET_FAIL;
     }
+    if (!snxtitem(&ni, EF_LOAN, "*"))
+    	return RET_SYN;
     (void)time(&now);
     pr("\n");
     pr("             -= Empire Financial Status Report =- \n");
     pr("                  ");
     prdate();
     pr("Loan       From            To        Rate   Dur     Paid      Total\n");
-    snxtitem(&ni, EF_LOAN, "*");
     while (nxtitem(&ni, &loan)) {
 	if (loan.l_status != LS_SIGNED)
 	    continue;
diff --git a/src/lib/commands/news.c b/src/lib/commands/news.c
index 0350a9ab..2dc2bce3 100644
--- a/src/lib/commands/news.c
+++ b/src/lib/commands/news.c
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ news(void)
     s_char num[128];
     s_char *verb;
 
+    if (!snxtitem(&nstr, EF_NEWS, "*"))
+    	return RET_SYN;
     memset(page_has_news, 0, sizeof(page_has_news));
     memset(sectors_taken, 0, sizeof(sectors_taken));
     (void)head();
@@ -86,7 +88,6 @@ news(void)
 /*	if (then < now - days(3))
 		then = now - days(3);
 */
-    snxtitem(&nstr, EF_NEWS, "*");
     pr("\nThe details of Empire news since %s", ctime(&then));
     while (nxtitem(&nstr, (s_char *)&nws)) {
 	if (nws.nws_when < then)