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Subj:	Re: Bug in VMS News 5.4


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Date: 1 Sep 88 15:45:00 GMT
From: munnari!uqcspe!bunyip!uqvax!csvax!zctsfisher@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Queensland Institute of Technology
Subject: Re: Bug in VMS News 5.4
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In article <3789@bmc1.bmc.uu.se>, sys_ms@bmc1.bmc.uu.se writes:
> 	It is still there. There is a bug in VMS News 5.4.
> 	If you post an item into an empty newsgroup the
> 	item is not accessible for reading. The following
> 	postings will be readable.

I had a talk with Geoff Huston on this and two other bugs at Australian 
DECUS last week. (In NOSCREEN mode headings are not printed and Newsgroup
directories do not work.)

He has recently moved from ANU to join Digital Australia.

He hopes eventually to make fixes available through the DECUS Australia 
computer "SMIFFY". If neither he nor anyone else does I will advise its
address when I learn the fixes are available or make them available here.

In the mean time the bug you mention can be got around as follows.

  After making the posting which is unreadable note its item number and the
  others in the group.

  Then from VMS do a directory of NEWS_ROOT: and follow the newsgroup 
  subdirectories down to the item directory. (Each part of the newsgroup name
  results in a lower level subdirectory.)

  In the item directory you will find the actual item files with names of the 
  form nn.ITM where nn is the item number.

  Rename the one with the wrong item number. This is the only thing wrong and
  you will now find it all works again.


Bill Fisher,
Queensland Institute of Technology.