crl@CSvax:Pucc-H:pur-phy.UUCP (09/02/83)
I'm not sure if this is where vnews bugs should go, but I can't think of a better place. The save article command takes FOREVER. In vnews, saving one of the 700+ line usenet map took ~40 system secs while readnews took ~2. I can see no reason for this since both seem to use tprint() from rfuncs2. A major difference is that readnews uses a fwait(fsubr()) call, but this shouldn't matter, should it? The goto article and goto parent commands seem to hang. The ID is printed, e.g. "<foo@bar.UUCP>", but nothing else happens. Again, readnews does this function correctly. Other than these, I like it. If only it could do notesfiles-like grouping and an index page, it would be almost perfect. Going back to some old article is still painful with news 2.10 in general. A complaint with news 2.10 is that the -x command takes forever also. What does it do? Try to open articles 1 to infinity? If I discover solutions to the above, I'll post them, but I thought someone else out there more familiar with it might know. By the way, we have an 11/44 running 2.8 BSD. Charles LaBrec pur-ee!Physics:crl purdue!Physics:crl crl @ pur-phy.UUCP
alb@alice.UUCP (09/03/83)
readnews -x tries to do exactly that. Since no record is kept of the first article in each group (only the last), readnews does a stat() call on articles 1 through the first one to find the lowest one. Slow...
smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) (09/04/83)
Other vnews problems are:
1. it hangs on a ^Z. When restarting, it doesn't
rewrite the screen until I ^L.
2. It doesn't say last article to give me the chance of
deciding if I want to go back, save, or x from vnews.
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--steve kramer
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linus!smk@mitre-bedford (MIL)smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) (09/04/83)
Also, vnews has a bug where when coming back into vnews
(via ^Z, a reply, or followup) the article is not displayed.
Overall, however, I think the vnews interface is the best.
(One man's opinion.)
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--steve kramer
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