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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Bug in Bnews??  (and where's the current version?)
Summary: Not a bug, not in news
Message-ID: <3954@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 90 14:21:47 GMT
References: <1661@tssi.UUCP>
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel, Home of the 32532
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X-Hdate: 10 Sivan 5750

In article <1661@tssi.UUCP> nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan) writes:
>I just noticed the following in Bnews:
>
>If you write out the file to a workfile and then ZZ, you get a 
>'file not changed' message, and the news entry is NOT posted!

This is not a bug but a feature, and not in Bnews but in "vi", the editor
you (unkowingly, it seems) use to create your files.

ZZ is short for "write the file if it has not been saved yet and exit"
note that it doesn't care *where* you saved the file, it doesn't have to
be in the same file you started with.  The "correct" way to exit vi is ":wq".

You can change the default editor Bnews uses by changing the EDITOR environment
variable.  And yes, you do use an old version of news - a .UUCP domain
is not considered valid any more in most places.

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