From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxi!deimos!orion!lime!burdvax!coltoff Newsgroups: net.general Title: small gripe Article-I.D.: burdvax.140 Posted: Sat Sep 4 11:34:41 1982 Received: Sun Sep 5 06:02:48 1982 The real problem with the `s' command in readnews is the tilde(~). Since the code in goes through the trouble of getting a path up to your home directory if no NEWSBOX variable is set the tilde slash typed by the user has to be trashed. This is a simple fix of probably 3 or 4 lines of code. We are using version 2.8 of news and later versions may have corrected this problem. While we are talking about news if anyone has problems with the `r' command when using the msgs interface to readnews notify me by mail. In our 2.8 this was fixed by the addition of a single character to the source code.