yamaguch%sol.usc.edu@USC.EDU (Brian Yamaguchi) (03/02/90)
pollux.usc.edu is a Sun-3/260 running SunOS 4.0.3 running this verison: GNU Emacs 18.54.3 of Sat May 27 1989 on sargas.usc.edu (berkeley-unix) ----- Return-Path: <gasser@pollux.usc.edu> Received: from pollux.usc.edu by skat.usc.edu (4.1/SMI-3.0DEV3) id AA19559; Mon, 26 Feb 90 15:17:46 PST Received: by pollux.usc.edu (4.1/SMI-3.0DEV3) id AA14893; Mon, 26 Feb 90 15:17:40 PST Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 15:17:40 PST From: gasser@pollux.usc.edu (Les Gasser) Message-Id: <9002262317.AA14893@pollux.usc.edu> To: action@pollux.usc.edu Subject: Gnu emacs rnews problem *** EOOH *** Return-Path: <gasser@pollux.usc.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 15:17:40 PST From: gasser@pollux.usc.edu (Les Gasser) To: action@pollux.usc.edu Subject: Gnu emacs rnews problem I read news using gnu rnews. When I'm through (read all the news in all subscribed-to newsgroups) I "quit" rnews, and there is a message "updating .newsrc file..." in the minibuffer. Fine. But next time I rnews, the SAME news gets read, i.e. .newsrc has NOT been updated. [This is extremely frustrating, especially in that I cannot, in gnu, mark a collection of messages as read (I can do this using unix rn)---I have to go through and read them one at a time again.] Another strange manifestation: What does change in a .newsrc? I read my news this AM at about 11:25 - here's what a ls -l of .newsrc now, at 3:20 PM, returns: -rw-r--r-- 1 gasser 716 Feb 26 11:28 .newsrc So .newsrc DID get updated, somehow... but I still get the same news now when I try to read it (ca. 3;30 PM.) One newsgroup in particluar to which this happens is usc.general; another is comp.ai. I consider this (the failure to actually update .newsrc) a bug, not a feature. -- Les ------ Brian