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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: News System for Coherent.
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!csusac!citrus!qumqats
- From: qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Joel M. Baldwin )
- Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822 Sacramento CA. USA
- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:01
- Reply-To: qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Joel M. Baldwin )
- Message-ID: <9208260800.43@citrus.SAC.CA.US>
- References: <ZZg1PB1w165w@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de> <920824314@tiny.com>
- Lines: 38
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- In article <920824314@tiny.com> sjsobol@tiny.com (Steven J. Sobol) writes:
- >karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow) writes:
- >
- >>of uucp. To make me a full satisfied user of Coherent 4.0, I need a
- >>Newssystem. I know, there is a lot of Software around in Cohware.
- >>But the problem with Cohware is, that nobody seems to take the time
- >>to give the software easy to handle shell scripts.
- >
- >I have found, especially with my news software, that I have had to make
- >many small changes to get rn/wnews to work. And still there are some bugs.
-
- It took me months of poking around before I felt that my news system was
- fine tuned. Some of that time was just learning how things worked and
- how the different parts of the news system worked with each other. Some
- of it was tracking down outright bugs. rn has a couple.
-
- >Example:
- >If I use Pnews, and type my article and then suggest 'list', Pnews quits after
- >listing the article, instead of sending me back to the 'Send, abort, edit,
- >list?' prompt.
-
- I've noticed this also. I think it has something to do with exit
- codes. This has never bothered me much so I haven't gotten around to
- tracking the source of the problem down.
-
- > I cannot get back into rn after running a sub-shell, either.
-
- I don't think that there is a fix for this. I think that rn is just
- TOO large of a program to work in the small model of Coherent 3.X
- and when you shell off you're corrupting the stack.
- --
-
- Joel M. Baldwin
- System Administrator, Citrus Grove Public Access
- N6NPL H ( 916 ) 383-9470 W ( 916 ) 452-1481
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