Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!rayssd!dhb From: dhb@rayssd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: another problem with colon Message-ID: <20@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 11:19:39 EDT Article-I.D.: rayssd.20 Posted: Mon Jun 6 11:19:39 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 03:14:48 EDT Lines: 32 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 ...!allegra!rayssd!dhb ...!brunix!rayssd!dhb