From:	MERC::"uunet!VM1.NoDak.EDU!ANU-NEWS" 11-JUL-1992 14:25:52.40
To:	Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS <ANU-NEWS@VM1.NoDak.EDU>
CC:	
Subj:	Re: 'invisible newsgroups' with FASTLOAD and DIR/ALL in
	6.1-alpha4

In article <1992Jul9.014006.20696@mercury.unt.edu>,
cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu (christopher williams) writes:
> Ah, a reproducible bug. Gotta love those, hmm?
>
> Set /fastload in your profile, exit, and re-enter ANU 6.1-alpha-4.
> Do a DIR/REG, check the number of registered newsgroups, then do
> a DIR/ALL and type in the number of registered newsgroup. Keep
> going down (either with the down-arrow or DOWN n, and suddenly,
> there are invisible newsgroups -- no number, name, or any counts.
> However, they're still there, and you can hit return on them and
> enter it.
> Is this a known bug?
>
> Oh, and another one:
> do a SHOW PROFILE, SAVE, and an UPDATE. it accvio's on me...

I tried both of those and I couldn't reproduce either of them.
Everything worked fine for me! (We have VMS 5.4-3, Multinet and
about 2000 newsgroups in local database and I have compiled
the NEWS software here from the sources (NEWS_V61-ALPHA4_SRC.BCK_LZ)).

But 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.

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