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From: david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: ba.news,net.news.b
Subject: News 2.10.2 problems -- Please help!
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Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 20:34:27 EDT
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I just installed 2.10.2, and it seems to have a lot of problems.  I
guess at least some of them are my fault, since I installed about 30
patches and mods by hand.  Anyway, I would appreciate any suggestions
about the following:

1. When an article arrives with no valid groups specified, the resulting
file in the junk directory is 0 bytes.

2. Articles which get ZAPNOTEd end up with "0 lines" in the header.  (I
thought Mark Stein's patch would fix this, but...)

3. When inews barfs on an article, the resulting ~/dead.article file
contains an inews-generated header, but not the article itself.  (It's
interesting that when this happens postnews has already printed a
message saying that the article was posted successfully.)

4. Postnews (and therefore replies and followups) no longer gives the
editor the filename of the referenced article as a second argument.
This is a big loss for EMACS users, especially if the code is modified
to not insert the entire text of the referenced article in followups.
(I'll fix this, but I thought I'd mention it.)

5. Postnews makes no provision for deleting editor-created backup files
in /tmp; this seems to be necessary for CCA EMACS.  This was a problem
in 2.10, of course, but it was a lot easier to fix in the shell scripts.
(I'll fix this too.)

6. Chuqui's patch to tack on .signature at the end of a reply seem to
insert it right after the header instead (I can probably find this one
myself). 

7. 2.10.2 vnews seems like a total loss.  It is about 4x slower than
2.10, it screws up end-of-line underlines on a Televideo (like the
classic more bug), it doesn't handle TSTP properly -- what happened??
(I'm going through the diff to find out, but it's huge.)

If it helps, we are running 4.1BSD on a 750, and I had a negative
attitude during installation.  (News software seems particularly
attitude-sensitive.)
-- 
David DiGiacomo, BRAG Systems Inc., San Mateo CA  (415) 342-3963
(...decvax!ucbvax!hplabs!bragvax!david)