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From: dhb@rayssd.UUCP
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Subject: another problem with colon
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Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 11:19:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  6 11:19:39 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 03:14:48 EDT
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	I have encountered a minor problem related to the colon
prompt.  This is not a deragatory comment, as a general rule I
don't mind the colon.  It would be nice however, if people would
refrain from putting excessive blank lines in their articles.
Those of us who have the blank line suppression feature of "more"
enabled are sometimes annoyed by having news say an article is
20 lines long and then only seeing 10 lines on the screen.

	Now that I have that off my chest, on to my real problem.
The way I understand it, the purpose of the colon is to prevent a
long article from scrolling off the screen when printing the header
for the next article.  If the last article in the newsgroup is one
line less than this magic limit (16 lines) the colon is not printed,
however, since the next article header is preceeded by the name of
the newsgroup, the top of the article is scrolled off the screen!!

	The way I see it, this problem can be fixed in one of two ways.
Either the code in "show_tail" can be made smarter and recognize that
when this is the last article in the group that it needs more room, or
change the line in "hdr" that curently reads "if (holdup)" so that it
reads "if (holdup || ngrp)".  The second one is probably easier, but
has the side effect of pausing after ALL groups, not just those whose
last article is longer than 13 lines (approx.).

	I am going to implement the second choice I outlined above and
will report back as to the outcome.

			Dave Brierley
			Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI
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