Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!drivax!davison From: davison@dri.com (Wayne Davison) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: lots of trn problems Message-ID: Date: 1 Jan 91 11:16:46 GMT References: <1990Dec17.101920.11244@kithrup.COM> Sender: news@dri.com (USENET News System) Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA Lines: 43 Sean Eric Fagan (sef@kithrup.com) wrote: > The author has not replied to any of my messages; several of them, in fact, > bounced, because they could not be delivered in three days. There are a number of contributing factors to my absence. First and fore- most I have changed jobs and no longer have usenet access. I'm working on this, but my current plans don't involve having frequent access to a un*x system (sigh). To try to combat this, I've been mailing people about helping me with certain areas of trn development. If I have any volunteers, let me know. Also, "drivax" just stopped being a BSD 4.3 system and is now an Ultrix microvax. In the process a few things were temporarily messed up, some news and mail were lost, etc. I never even saw the posting of trn to comp.sources.unix. > I *really* like trn; I've become habituated to it, in fact. But it is not > usable as it is, and should not have been released to c.s.u; it should have > been sent out to alt.sources, and gone through at least one more beta > period. In my defense, the NNTP code is quite a recent addition to trn. The majority of the beta sites were not NNTP users, and the NNTP code needs some work. I've only used it to test it. (I'm looking for actual NNTP sites to help me out here.) The rest of trn was thoroughly beta tested. Even with that, a late-in-the-game fix to the interrupt handler has caused some sites to generate tons of ** interrupt 11 ** filler to the mt.log file. This is high on my priority list to fix. > My next complaint with it is that it has the articles in reverse order when > listing them for thread selection, and if you bypass that, you are at the > last article, instead of the first. This totally confuses me. Trn's thread selector lists articles in date order. What do you type to bypass the threads selection? Return from the last page? (Not a good choice.) Try typing tab. (Mail sent to the following address will be seen MUCH sooner than mail to the reply address.) -- \ /| / /|\/ /| /(_) Wayne Davison (_)/ |/ /\|/ / |/ \ 0004475895@mcimail.com (W A Y N e) ...!uunet!mcimail.com!0004475895