Aalice.218 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mhtsa!alice!wolit Fri Dec 11 11:11:43 1981 readnews bug ok, this is a subtle one: to simplify things, let's say there are two news items waiting for you. you read the first. readnews now goes on to the last one. but you want to save a copy of the first, so you type '-'. you get back to the first item, type 's', and then 'n' ('cause you don't want to read it again). you should now be facing the last item, right? wrong. you get a "last article" message instead. ok, so you quit and type readnews again to see that last message. surprise! for some reason, readnews now thinks you never saw ANY messages in the newsgroup of the first message (the one you just saved)! you plod through them all, and THEN come to that mysterious last message you were looking for in the first place. comments? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.