Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 Brag 10-8-84; site bragvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!hplabs!bragvax!david From: david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo) Newsgroups: ba.news,net.news.b Subject: News 2.10.2 problems -- Please help! Message-ID: <216@bragvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 20:34:27 EDT Article-I.D.: bragvax.216 Posted: Tue Oct 16 20:34:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 19:25:31 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Brag Systems Inc., San Mateo, CA Lines: 42 Xref: sun ba.news:198 net.news.b:599 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)