Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!darwin.ntu.edu.au!news From: jenner@post.ntu.edu.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: TheNews version 2.02 available for FTP Message-ID: <1991Jun6.104606.1013@darwin.ntu.edu.au> Date: 6 Jun 91 01:16:05 GMT References: <1991Jun5.150334.29427@guinness.idbsu.edu> Organization: Nothern Territory University Lines: 35 Nntp-Posting-Host: jenner.ntu.edu.au In article <1991Jun5.150334.29427@guinness.idbsu.edu> bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter) writes: >In article gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) >writes: >>Bill Cramer (the author) had sent this off to sumex, but apparently it hasn't > >>shown up there. I checked with him and decided to make it available on my own > >>machine. > >I just checked their queue, and it is there, but it's a bit down the line. >They're running about 3 weeks behind by the looks of the quque. > >Thanks for making this available, and thanks to Bill for writing it! I'm >hoping that if the bug in adding/deleting groups is fixed that I can get our >administration to site license this package. > >Bruce Carter On the subject of bugs, I am wondering if anyone hase experienced the following: On my IIcx, "TheNews" will not open from a saved doc yet it will on an SE20. On the SE20, the preferences window is too large for the screen. The "flurry" of messages does not appear during connection. Although this may save time, it is disconcerting to stare at a blank dialog box while waiting. On the plus side, you can now open >32k messages which is useful when looking at binaries and the mentioned crash has gone. I have reverted back to v1.0x hoping that Bill will come up with a fix for the above. It is a great product and my boss will definitely approve a site license. Cheers, Bob Jenner.