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From: diamant@cwruecmp.UUCP (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: wishlist
Message-ID: <694@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 10:54:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.694
Posted: Fri Oct  7 10:54:51 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Oct-83 06:51:03 EDT
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Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio
Lines: 24


In regard to the problem with checknews claiming there is news and
readnews disagreeing, it seems that when two lines such as:

net.mumble: 1-45
net.mumble: 1-23,45

appear in the .newsrc file, checknews will believe there is unread news
in net.mumble.  I have not looked at the code, but what appears to be
happening is that when a comma appears in a category (regardless of
whether it was the most recent list of articles read), checknews will
believe there are unread articles.  Note that in this case, the articles
between 23 and 45 were read, and checknews screwed up.

I have also noticed that my newsrc file is filling up with multiple
entries for the same category (as above).  Does anyone know if this is a
bug in readnews or simply that it is not implemented to eliminate
outdated newsrc lines?


					John Diamant
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