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From: geoff@utcsstat.UUCP (Geoff Collyer)
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Subject: Re: assorted 2.10.1 bug fixes and changes (readnews)
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Date: Tue, 15-May-84 04:51:59 EDT
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I'm sorry that I broke the non-interactive modes of readnews with my
latest batch of changes.  I still don't know what -e does, because it
isn't documented (in readnews(1) anyway), and I don't have enough spare
time to decrypt the source.  I guess this is a penalty for trying to
provide five or six user interfaces in one monolithic, lumbering hulk.

I think Mr. Rees's fix is cleaner than mine.  I certainly don't fully
understand readr() and I doubt that anyone does.  The news swillware is
full of gotos, continues, four-page functions and global variables.
I'd like to know why the main, essential, core logic of readnews is
scattered across three functions in three source files.