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From: stein@fortune.UUCP (Mark Stein)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: News 2.10.2 problems
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 13:43:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 13:43:30 1984
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> I just installed 2.10.2, and it seems to have a lot of problems.
In defense of 2.10.2, I brought it up here with no problems at all
(4.1BSD on an 11/780, and on the Fortune 68000 machine).

> 1. When an article arrives with no valid groups specified, the resulting
> file in the junk directory is 0 bytes.
If you installed the XREF patch from rn, this is a bug which is
introduced by the patch.  I have sent a fix to Larry Wall for inclusion
in the next rn bux fix posting.

> 2. Articles which get ZAPNOTEd end up with "0 lines" in the header.  (I
> thought Mark Stein's patch would fix this, but...)
My patch only fixes this problem if your site is the one which strips off
the notes stuff.  If the article is ZAPNOTEd somewhere else, and they
don't have the fix installed, then it's too late.  By the way, this
seems to be happening alot lately.

> 6. 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
Try using rn.  Very nice (although I don't know whether the
Televideo problem is present there).

			      Mark Stein, Fortune Systems
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