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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: News 2.10.2 problems
Message-ID: <1401@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 11:43:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1401
Posted: Mon Oct 22 11:43:40 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Oct-84 02:45:15 EDT
References: <220@bragvax.UUCP> <4513@fortune.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
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Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <4513@fortune.UUCP> stein@fortune.UUCP (Mark Stein) writes:
>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.

A patch for this has been posted.  It also fixes the problem with checkgroups
control messages telling you to remove all non-local groups. :-(

>> 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).

As it happens, rn was developed on a Televideo 920, and is well aware of
the ideosyncracies of that sort of terminal.

Larry Wall
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