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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: RN 4.3 (patch level 43(?))
Message-ID: <17143@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 17:49:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdcad.17143
Posted: Mon Jun 15 17:49:05 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jun-87 01:38:34 EDT
References: <952@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1074@rayssd.RAY.COM> <4103@teddy.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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In article <4103@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>values from "write" and "close".  In Rn's case, if the NEW .newsrc cannot
>be written, it should leave the OLD .newsrc intact, display an error, and
>exit.

This is a bad deal as it will force me to re-read all the articles I
read in that session. How about displaying an error and then asking me
what I want to do next? Then I can ^Z or spawn a subshell to make some
space to write out the .newsrc. 

-- 
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com