From:	MERC::"uunet!VM1.NoDak.EDU!ANU-NEWS" 10-AUG-1992 10:14:10.58
To:	Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS <ANU-NEWS@VM1.NoDak.EDU>
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Subj:	Re: A beta version available (finally!)

In article <920809213616.a04@SAO.AARNET.EDU.AU>, Geoff Huston <GIH900@SAO.AARNET
.EDU.AU> writes:
> Ed Wilts points out correctly that there are still some problems with
> the 6.1 code ...
>
>   There is a bug in the V6.1 BETA 1 release in NEWSADD.C.  Around line 487,
>  there
>   are TWO printf statements for displaying the added message to the log file.
>   The second one should be deleted.
>
>   There is also a bug in the help library for CROSSPOST (this is also a proble
m
>   in the 6.0-3 help library).  Search NEWS.HLP for the string "1 CROSSPOST".
>   Delete the control characters preceeding the "1" and re-insert the module in
to
>   your help library.
>
> These will be fixed immediately.

I copied V6.1 BETA 1 Sunday evening (EET-DST) and
these two were already corrected... fast service, thanks Geoff !

Unfortunately there is still more bugs...

I reported few bugs about three weeks ago:

In article <1992Jul16.173308.1389@tac.fi>, tiok_jk@tac.fi (Juha Koivisto)
wrote:
>> I discovered one new(?) bug in 6.1-alpha-4:
>>
>> If you have line NEWREGISTER=*/confirm in your NEWSRC-file
>> and then you answer Q to the "New newsgroup: group.name, Register? [Y]"-
>> question then your profile (and later your NEWSRC when you EXIT)
>> changes to NEWREGISTER=*0confirm and this means that next time when
>> there is new groups NEWS will not ask you confirmation any more.
>> If you answer Y, N or A then all works fine.
>>
>> I looked NEWSPROFILE.C and line 103 looks like that:
>>     if (slash) *slash = '0';
>> and I am not sure if it should be like
>>     if (slash) *slash = '\0';
>> I have not tried it, but this may be the reason.
>
>Now I had little more time to examine it and that previos guess
>was not correct. NEWSPROFILE.C line 103 looks like:
>     if (slash) *slash = '0';
>but this '0' should actually be '/'. So the line 103 should be:
>     if (slash) *slash = '/';
>I compiled it again and this little change seems to fix this bug.
>I hope that someome (Geoff?) will correct this to the next release.

This is not yet corrected. In the V6.1 BETA 1 this bug is now in
line 104 of NEWSPROFILE.C

I am not sure if my messages, where I told about the bug previously,
ever made to the world because our feed site had some problems in
those days. At least I didn't get any replies or followups to it.
I hope that this bug will now be corrected to the next release.

The following problem does not exist any more in BETA 1:

>Another problem is with RC-FILTER profile setting. When you have
>this profile setting in your newsrc and you start news, it will
>print (like New newsgroup: xxxx.yyyyy not registered) all those
>newsgroups you don't have in your newsrc-file. This did not happen
>with 6.0-3. I know few people in our site who have about 15
>newsgoups and RC-FILTER in their newsrc-files and now when they
>start news they have to watch about 2000 lines of text before
>they can use news. When they exit the newsrc file will be ok.
>It does not have those goups in it.

But this 'feature' still exists:

>The third bug is with SHOW UNSEENITEMS command (the same bug
>was already in 6.0-3. Has anybody else noticed this?).
>Select any nousgroup where is unseen items.
>Mark some of them as read but leave some items from the
>beginning of the list as unread (or at least there should be skipped
>or read items after one unseen item) and use SHOW UNSEENITEMS command.
>If there were consecutive read/skipped items then news will still
>show every second of them. And this is not all. Try the
>SHOW UNSEENITEMS command again. Now news will mark some of
>already read (or skipped) articles as unread. If you use the
>SHOW UNSEENITEMS command enough times then all the items will be
>as unread !

I know that this is not a problem for most of us (You usually
don't use SHOW UNSEENITEMS command many times in a same group, do you?),
but I think that it is still nice to know all bugs that exist.

--
Juha Koivisto   *  Department of Information Technology
tiok_jk@tac.fi  *  City of Tampere, Finland