Astolaf.149
net.news.b
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!sys
Tue Feb 23 10:21:18 1982
B News Bug
We just started running B news, so the following bug in readnews may be
"well known" and possibly "fixed," but just in case...

If you back up one article and cross over a newsgroup boundary, you
usually will get some psychotic behavior (either the old newsgroup gets
updated like the next NG in .newsrc or you then lose the NG you backed
up from).  I *fixed* it by arranging to save the bitmap and statbuf along
with the article name, number and groupname.  These get restored when you
back up (the '-' command) and saved with every article.  You also get some
mileage out of saving the file offset in the ACTIVE file so you can return
to where you were w/respect to other newsgroups, but you get what you deserve
if you start jumping around with the N command.

It would be nice if you could backup n articles, but I see no way short of
a rewrite.  This fix makes it usable; does NOTESFILE solve the problem?
I seem to recall some problems posted a while ago, but saw no fixes.  I
assume the *real* B news will not have this problem, but it was heck
trying to use this one (however vast an improvement over A news).

                                               Alan Hastings
                                               ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!hastings

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