Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: Is this a bug in the UPDATE command? Message-ID: <8907140514.AA18337@uunet.uu.net> Date: 14 Jul 89 14:37:42 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 29 Bob Sloane writes: -- >Whenever I use the UPDATE command, it changes the DIRECTORY status from >REGISTER to ALL. Is this the intended behavior, or is this a bug? Has anyone >else noticed this? It is semi-deliberate (whatever that means) The actions of the UPDATE command are to free off the entire memory array and re-map memory from the file. In doing so the displayed attribute of each newsgroup is lost. I'll see what can be done with this cause it is logically a bug. While I'm writing to the list, there is some more information about versions of NEWS: NEWS V5.8B will NOT be coming out. I have been working on including personal MAIL into news (after all mail folders and newsgroups are pretty similar). V5.9 will be released in a few weeks which will include the commands OPEN/MAIL and CLOSE/MAIL which will allow NEWS to be used as a mail user agent (with a set of additional commands to manage your mail file). Geoff Huston gih900@csc.anu.oz.au