From: MERC::"uunet!VM1.NoDak.EDU!ANU-NEWS" 10-AUG-1992 10:14:10.58 To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS CC: Subj: Re: A beta version available (finally!) In article <920809213616.a04@SAO.AARNET.EDU.AU>, Geoff Huston writes: > Ed Wilts points out correctly that there are still some problems with > the 6.1 code ... > > There is a bug in the V6.1 BETA 1 release in NEWSADD.C. Around line 487, > there > are TWO printf statements for displaying the added message to the log file. > The second one should be deleted. > > There is also a bug in the help library for CROSSPOST (this is also a proble m > in the 6.0-3 help library). Search NEWS.HLP for the string "1 CROSSPOST". > Delete the control characters preceeding the "1" and re-insert the module in to > your help library. > > These will be fixed immediately. I copied V6.1 BETA 1 Sunday evening (EET-DST) and these two were already corrected... fast service, thanks Geoff ! Unfortunately there is still more bugs... I reported few bugs about three weeks ago: In article <1992Jul16.173308.1389@tac.fi>, tiok_jk@tac.fi (Juha Koivisto) wrote: >> I discovered one new(?) bug in 6.1-alpha-4: >> >> If you have line NEWREGISTER=*/confirm in your NEWSRC-file >> and then you answer Q to the "New newsgroup: group.name, Register? [Y]"- >> question then your profile (and later your NEWSRC when you EXIT) >> changes to NEWREGISTER=*0confirm and this means that next time when >> there is new groups NEWS will not ask you confirmation any more. >> If you answer Y, N or A then all works fine. >> >> I looked NEWSPROFILE.C and line 103 looks like that: >> if (slash) *slash = '0'; >> and I am not sure if it should be like >> if (slash) *slash = '\0'; >> I have not tried it, but this may be the reason. > >Now I had little more time to examine it and that previos guess >was not correct. NEWSPROFILE.C line 103 looks like: > if (slash) *slash = '0'; >but this '0' should actually be '/'. So the line 103 should be: > if (slash) *slash = '/'; >I compiled it again and this little change seems to fix this bug. >I hope that someome (Geoff?) will correct this to the next release. This is not yet corrected. In the V6.1 BETA 1 this bug is now in line 104 of NEWSPROFILE.C I am not sure if my messages, where I told about the bug previously, ever made to the world because our feed site had some problems in those days. At least I didn't get any replies or followups to it. I hope that this bug will now be corrected to the next release. The following problem does not exist any more in BETA 1: >Another problem is with RC-FILTER profile setting. When you have >this profile setting in your newsrc and you start news, it will >print (like New newsgroup: xxxx.yyyyy not registered) all those >newsgroups you don't have in your newsrc-file. This did not happen >with 6.0-3. I know few people in our site who have about 15 >newsgoups and RC-FILTER in their newsrc-files and now when they >start news they have to watch about 2000 lines of text before >they can use news. When they exit the newsrc file will be ok. >It does not have those goups in it. But this 'feature' still exists: >The third bug is with SHOW UNSEENITEMS command (the same bug >was already in 6.0-3. Has anybody else noticed this?). >Select any nousgroup where is unseen items. >Mark some of them as read but leave some items from the >beginning of the list as unread (or at least there should be skipped >or read items after one unseen item) and use SHOW UNSEENITEMS command. >If there were consecutive read/skipped items then news will still >show every second of them. And this is not all. Try the >SHOW UNSEENITEMS command again. Now news will mark some of >already read (or skipped) articles as unread. If you use the >SHOW UNSEENITEMS command enough times then all the items will be >as unread ! I know that this is not a problem for most of us (You usually don't use SHOW UNSEENITEMS command many times in a same group, do you?), but I think that it is still nice to know all bugs that exist. -- Juha Koivisto * Department of Information Technology tiok_jk@tac.fi * City of Tampere, Finland