mike@delilah.lbl.gov (Michael Helm) (01/12/89)
I recently ported rn (a newsreader -- in its rrn form) to an HP-UX 6.2 machine. Everything seems to have gone well, but I have encountered a minor, but puzzling, oddity & I wonder if anyone has any ideas about it &/| recommendations. When an rn-user replies or follows up to an article, rn (in verbose mode) displays the message/article header, a few informative messages, then invokes a shell script which runs the editor &c, does a few messages of its own, then returns to rn. Uh--or something like that. Some of these messages seem to be getting truncated or omitted, mainly those just before or after the shell script. Not the mail message or the article, understand, these seem ok, but the messages to the user on the terminal. I've found that by putting in little naps (sleep 1 & sleep(1) as approp) here & there that things come out alrite. It seems silly to have to do something like this. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Thanks for your help, Michael Helm (Internet M_Helm@lbl.gov)