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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Zero-length items & More
Message-ID: <5307@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 17:02:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5307
Posted: Mon Oct 15 17:02:48 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 07:43:38 EDT
Organization: Ballistics Research Lab
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It appears that more and more items are showing up with the "Lines:" field
set to "0", but which have a number of lines of content. The causes for
this have been discussed during the past month or so, and I don't want
to re-start that particular discussion. However, I have noticed a bad
effect of this phenomenon. When you come across one of these "false-zero-
length" postings while reading news, and give a C-R to read it, it is not
handed off to "More" to handle the screen-length pausing; it is just 
displayed in an unstopping stream. Can this be fixed without affecting
the way normal items are handled?

Will Martin