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