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From: crl@CSvax:Pucc-H:pur-phy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: vnews misfeatures/bugs
Message-ID: <901@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 13:57:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: pur-phy.901
Posted: Fri Sep  2 13:57:53 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Sep-83 10:59:41 EDT
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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I'm not sure if this is where vnews bugs should go, but I can't think
of a better place.

The save article command takes FOREVER.  In vnews, saving one of the
700+ line usenet map took ~40 system secs while readnews took ~2.
I can see no reason for this since both seem to use tprint() from
rfuncs2.  A major difference is that readnews uses a fwait(fsubr())
call, but this shouldn't matter, should it?

The goto article and goto parent commands seem to hang.  The ID
is printed, e.g. "<foo@bar.UUCP>", but nothing else happens.  Again,
readnews does this function correctly.

Other than these, I like it.  If only it could do notesfiles-like
grouping and an index page, it would be almost perfect.  Going back
to some old article is still painful with news 2.10 in general.
A complaint with news 2.10 is that the -x command takes forever also.
What does it do?  Try to open articles 1 to infinity?

If I discover solutions to the above, I'll post them, but I thought
someone else out there more familiar with it might know.  By the
way, we have an 11/44 running 2.8 BSD.

Charles LaBrec
pur-ee!Physics:crl
purdue!Physics:crl
crl @ pur-phy.UUCP