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From: faigin@sunstroke.aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: rn doesn't notice that mail has been read
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Date: 26 Sep 89 15:53:41 GMT
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In article <6@ccssrv.UUCP> perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) writes:

	I've noticed an irritating bug in rn.it prompts with (Mail),
	which is fine.  So I move to another window and read the mail,
	save or delete as appropriate, run mail again to confirm that
	there is no more mail, and move back to the rn window.  The
	problem is that, for the next several prompts (I haven't
	counted, it's more than 2 or 3 and doesn't seem to be related
	to switching newsgroups, running external programs, etc.)  rn
	continues to say (Mail) even though there isn't any!  I could
	exit from rn and restart it, but then it would start over at
	the beginning of the list of newsgroups.  Does anyone know a
	way to fix this?

This is probably not the solution you want (I've run into the problem
too), but if you give the switch -r to rn, it will start up in the
last newsgroup read. 

Daniel
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