Known problems in NEWS Version 5.2 26-Apr-1988 ---------------------------------- 1. The directory of a newsgroup with > 841 items (e.g. 1125) is incorrectly displayed after item 841. Information on items after the 841st becomes unavailable. This is a bug induced by a 64k byte limit on the size of a SMG virtual display. 2. When DEREGISTERing a newsgroup from the DIRECTORY/REG display, the display returns to newsgroup number 1 (instead of remaining at the next (or previous) newsgroup as occurs when DELETE'ing a news group from DIRECTORY/ALL). 3. When a newsgroup is DELETE'd in screen mode from DIRECTORY/ALL, moving with up- or down-arrow leaves a copy of the arrow pointer pointing at the next immediate newsgroup following the deleted one. 4. Re-formatting news batches sent from unix sites will always be a site-specific problem - the code I have written to parse a batch file and extract out news items certainly works on my site, but may not work for you - In such cases you may either pre-process the batch file to a format which my code will accept (read newsadd.c for a description of the format) or you may edit newsadd.c and change the parser to suit the incoming format. BEAST.PAS is also included in the sources as one site's solution to the pre-processor option.