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From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Deleting Articles under ANEWS from Amiga UUCP 1.05D
Message-ID: <0407.AA0407@starsoft.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 90 12:42:45 GMT
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>Has anyone had any problem deleting articles under the ANEWS distributed
>with Amiga UUCP 1.05D?
>
>I like this version of ANEWS much better, since I can post and reply from
>it.  But how do I get rid of the articles that I have read and don't want
>to keep?  I have been telling it to delete the articles (the "d" key), but
>after I finish the newsgroup, the system tells they are all there again, with
>the same number of unread messages!
>
If you have a C compiler, you can put this small fix in the code:



In there is a file called news.c.

The following lattice diff file shows the changes necessary to make the
delete command work correctly. It also fixes a "bug" that caused the
group you just finished reading to be re-scanned. With the fix, when
you finish a group, the next group is scanned, and you are asked
if you want to read it.

==================Start of diff file - Cut here =================

		TO TRANSFORM Onews.c INTO news.c ...

*** CHANGE 382 IN Onews.c TO [382,383] IN news.c ***
<    return ('n');

---------------
>    free_directory(1);
>    return ('$');
=======================End of diff file ===========================

There is another "bug" that causes the 'followup' commands 'f & F' to
be confused with the 'reply' commands 'r & R'. To fix this, you edit
showart.c. In function 'showart' there is a switch statement. Just
switch the contents of the 'r' and the 'f' cases.

Hope this helps......

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