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From: mark@omepd.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: problems with rn
Message-ID: <817@omepd>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 17:21:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: omepd.817
Posted: Wed Jun 17 17:21:10 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jun-87 04:02:02 EDT
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Reply-To: mark@omepd.intel.com (Mark Aitken)
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In article <11@bnl.UUCP> abrams@bnl.UUCP (Karl L. Abrams) writes:
>
>	I am running version 2.10.2 of news on an a Vax 11/780 under Ultix 1.2,
>and am attempting to install rn. The following problems are occuring:
>
>1. A carraige return is required after all commands, not just the multi-
>character commands, as stated in the man document. Rn seems to be responding 
>correctly to the commands, but the inconvenience of 2 keystrokes for every 
>command is a pain. Rn doesn't seem to be operating in the cbreak mode, as 
>advertized.
>

We have had his problem also, it seems to be a problem with Ultrix (1.2 and
2.0).  We have gotten around this by running our 4.3 binaries.  Not a very
nice solution.

>When I attempt to post a follow-up article from within an article I get:
>
>>(leaving cbreak mode; cwd=/u2h/u1/abrams)
>>Invoking command: Pnews -h /u1/abrams/.rnhead
>>
>>I see you've never used this version of Pnews before.  I will give you extra..
>>				.
>>				.
>>dollars to send everywhere.  Please be sure you know what you are doing.
>>
>>Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] y
>>(re-entering cbreak mode)
>>(Mail) End of article 404 (of 407)--what next? [npq] 
> 
>and no follow-up article is posted. The same things happen if 'F' is typed.

I believe that you are getting the extra newline (that you typed after 
the 'f') and rn is taking that as the answer to the "Are you..." question
so it, of course, it takes the default, which is 'n'.

>Any help will be gratefully accepted.

I wish that I had an answer for you, but it wasn't worth my time to try
to track it down when we had other binaries that worked fine on our
Ultrix machines.

mark

Mark Aitken
mark@omepd.intel.com
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