rusty (09/03/82)
If anyone is taking a vote I think it is a bad idea for
readnews to default to saving in one's home directory
instead of ".". If you want it to default to your home
directory make a shell script that looks similar to my
"emp" shell script that I use for Empire:
#! /bin/sh
cd ${HOME}/emp
eval exec empire "${*}"
The "emp" directory in my home directory is protected
so people can't look at my empire stuff.
Generally programs that like to think for you cause more
trouble than ones that don't. It is usually rather difficult
to make a program that is "too smart" do what you want to
do (as opposed to what it thinks you want/should do). As
is demonstrated by the above shell script it is trivially
simple to make a "dumb" program do something "smart" for
you.davidson (09/03/82)
I also much prefer news files to be saved in the current directory unless I specify otherwise. I long ago aliases news and mail to do an invisible push to my mail directory, and an invisible pop afterwards. I don't like cluttering my top level. Greg