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.