kdh (09/01/82)
Why, when I use the "s" (save) command of readnews, does the article get created in my home directory, rather than in the directory that I am currently in? This is, perhaps, a petty annoyance, but an annoyance none the less. Seems that it actually would require less work, software-wise to place it in the current directory, rather than trashing around to find my home directory. Comments? Kevin Hunter houti!kdh (houx*!houti!kdh)
otto (09/01/82)
I think it is a good idea to put saved articles under the user's home directory (or perhaps a directory of their choice determined by the value of an environmental variable). I am really tired of finding that I have put "net.cook" articles under 10 or 15 different directories because I chanced to read netnews between doing other work in those directories. Locating all the files, then reassembling them in chronological order is more time than its worth. Three cheers to those who finally fixed up this bug. (For those who want to override this option, can't you just say something like "s- ./localfile"?) George Otto Bell Labs, Indian Hill ----------------------
coltoff (09/04/82)
The real problem with the `s' command in readnews is the tilde(~). Since the code in goes through the trouble of getting a path up to your home directory if no NEWSBOX variable is set the tilde slash typed by the user has to be trashed. This is a simple fix of probably 3 or 4 lines of code. We are using version 2.8 of news and later versions may have corrected this problem. While we are talking about news if anyone has problems with the `r' command when using the msgs interface to readnews notify me by mail. In our 2.8 this was fixed by the addition of a single character to the source code.