[news.software.b] rrn leaves your terminal in unsane mode after timeout from server

a3@earth.rivm.nl (Adri Verhoef) (04/23/91)

This is rrn (patch 54).  Start rrn.  Read some articles.  Wait 2 hours.
Now there appears to be a problem, since the nntpd-process on the NNTP-
server has timed out, causing the rrn-process on the client to exit un-
gracefully: the terminal is left in unsane mode [noecho, cbreak, etc.].

Sample output:


********  61 unread articles in comp.dcom.modems--read now? [ynq] y
rrn: server response to GROUP comp.dcom.modems:
503 Timeout after 7200 seconds, closing connection.

******** 115 unread articles in comp.editors--read now? [ynq] y


Now your prompt appears, and your terminal is left in an unsane mode.
[noecho, cbreak, etc.]