Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!manse.cs.man.ac.uk!marshall From: marshall@manse.cs.man.ac.uk Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Bugs in v 5.9c Keywords: profile/rc-order keeprequest cancel Message-ID: <131.25d80f49@manse.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: 13 Feb 90 13:44:41 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester Lines: 33 In v 5.9c: I posted this about a month ago and saw no responses, so I assume it never got out, apologies if you're seeing it twice. 1) If a new group is created and your profile is set to rc-order (might also need automatic registering) then any new group appears to have the same name as the last item in the previous newsrc. file. The new group is inaccessible - I ended up with 15 (apparent) copies of the last group in newsrc. in my display! In order to sort things out I had to edit the newsrc. file removing the duplicate groups and the rc-order and re-enter news. 2) I can't replicate this bug in a controlled fashion, but somtimes when cancelling an article, the last two lines of the newsgroup display appears at the foot of the newsitem screen (doesn't go away with a crtl-w). 3) We don't have much disk space and all groups are set to be `/nokeeprequest'. However, whenever I do a `set newsgroup /qualifier', the group gets set back to keeprequest. Is this the intended behaviour? I get round it by always doing `set newsgroup /qualifier/nokeep' but it does get a little tiresome. Robert -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert A.J.Marshall, Room 2.02, IT Building, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, U.K. Tel: (+44) 61-275 6163 Internal: 6163 JANET: rmarshall@uk.ac.man.cs EARN: rmarshall@cs.man.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------