Apurdue.174
net.news.b
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!mab
Sat Jan 30 10:51:40 1982
"bug that causes news to be displayed repeatedly"

I've found a bug which causes news items to be redisplayed.  The symptoms
are these:  you type "readnews", read your news, and then exit; you
type "readnews" again and get more news.

The glitch I've found occurs whenever you have finished a newsgroup, are
at the first article of the next newsgroup, and decide to look at the last
article of the previous newsgroup again.  When you type '-', the
newsgroup and article names are reset, but the structure "statbuf" is NOT
reset.  Consequently, when the procedure "updaterc" is re-executed,
the "last" article read has the same number as the last article of the
new newsgroup.  Consequently, the number in the .newsrc file is
garbage, and if the new news group happens to have less items in it than
the old news group .... you get the idea.

I don't know any quick fixes; if you do, Matt, could you broadcast it?
People here are getting pretty tired of seeing the same thing over and
over.

                                               Matt

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