gauldin@ihuxf.UUCP (06/01/83)
I recently ran into a strange problem while reading news. I had just replied to an article (via mail). When I went back to reading, some articles came out as garbage. The headers would look fine, but the article itself would be a short line or two of unintelligible characters. Not all articles were garbled, some came out fine. I quit readnews and came back and reread the previously garbled articles, and they were fine (well, at least they were readable). Has anyone else encountered this problem? Mark Gauldin ihuxf!gauldin
ekb@machaids.UUCP (06/02/83)
We've found another case where articles are printed out as garbage. One of our users disabled the default pager by setting the environment variable PAGER to null. He found that if he used the delete key to stop the printing of a long article, all subsequent articles were printed as a few lines of junk. I don't know if this is related to Mark Gauldin's mail problem, but it does have similar symptoms. In our case, all articles were garbaged until he quit readnews and went back in. If anyone figures out what the problem is, I'd like to hear it. - Eric Bustad machaids!ekb