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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Readnews and signals....
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 18:38:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 19 18:38:28 1984
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I would imagine that reading news would be an atomic operation, i.e.  
you read all your news, or you read none of it.  Perhaps this should
be changed but that would mean writing out a temporary file for every
message you read, since that file is the only thing that knows how much 
news you read.  Either that, or it needs to rewrite .newsrc each time 
you read a message (real inefficient).
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Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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