From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: bug in readnews Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2333 Posted: Thu Jun 3 22:38:27 1982 Received: Sat Jun 5 01:00:29 1982 References: lime.256 All this talk about changing the cutoff from 18 to 15 is amusing, but has nothing to do with the problem. There is no easy solution to the problem. Suppose, for example, that the message has 17 lines, that there will be 10 lines printed by the header of the next newsgroup, and that the cutoff has been set at 15. readnews decides the message is long enough to go through more, and more prints the message, stopping every 23 lines. Obviously it will reach the end of the message without stopping, at which point it will exit, and readnews will go on to the next message, print those 10 header lines, and the top of the message runs off the top of the screen. There are three solutions I see. Others are welcome. (1) Pause asking for more input (like the qfr prompt at the end) after every article. This would probably be very painful for the user. (2) Build a pager into readnews. Since to do this really well requires readnews to know as much about your terminal as more, this seems like a bad idea unless it's a very simple pager that doesn't try to erase the prompt. (3) Put page mode in your tty driver. (This is what I do.) This stops the screen when 23 lines go by without you typing anything, no matter what program generated it. Mark