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utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mhtsa!ihnss!npois!eiss!jtb
Thu Dec 24 08:54:54 1981
BUG in readnews
There seems to be a bug in the '-' option to readnews.
Here's an example:
..
Newsgroups: net.news
(129 lines) More? [ynq] n
net.jokes.q:
Subject: more Helen Keller humor...
(10 lines) More? [ynq] -
net.news:
Subject: proposed USENET policies
(129 lines) More? [ynq] n
net.unix-wizar:
Subject: rm02 or rm03 driver
(8 lines) More? [ynq] -
net.news:
Subject: proposed USENET policies
(129 lines) More? [ynq] q
..
When I said 'n' to the USENET policies item the second time, it should have
gone to net.jokes.q, which I hadn't seen. Instead it went on to net.unix...
Then a '-' should have backed up to net.jokes.q, right???
Also, it seems that people aren't using the 'f-' (etc.) options correctly.
I suggest that the usage is correct, the IMPLEMENTATION is wrong!
After having just read an article its THAT one I want to respond to,
not the one I haven't seen yet. How about having it return to the SAME
header after reading an item, or having it DEFAULT to '-'.
John Burgess
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