lots of trn problems

[Wayne Davison]

Sean Eric Fagan (sef at kithrup.com) wrote:
> The author has not replied to any of my messages; several of them, in fact,
> bounced, because they could not be delivered in three days.

There are a number of contributing factors to my absence.  First and fore-
most I have changed jobs and no longer have usenet access.  I'm working on
this, but my current plans don't involve having frequent access to a un*x
system (sigh).  To try to combat this, I've been mailing people about helping
me with certain areas of trn development.  If I have any volunteers, let me
know.

Also, "drivax" just stopped being a BSD 4.3 system and is now an Ultrix
microvax.  In the process a few things were temporarily messed up, some
news and mail were lost, etc.  I never even saw the posting of trn to
comp.sources.unix.

> I *really* like trn; I've become habituated to it, in fact.  But it is not
> usable as it is, and should not have been released to c.s.u; it should have
> been sent out to alt.sources, and gone through at least one more beta
> period.

In my defense, the NNTP code is quite a recent addition to trn.  The
majority of the beta sites were not NNTP users, and the NNTP code needs
some work.  I've only used it to test it.  (I'm looking for actual
NNTP sites to help me out here.)  The rest of trn was thoroughly beta
tested.  Even with that, a late-in-the-game fix to the interrupt handler
has caused some sites to generate tons of ** interrupt 11 ** filler to
the mt.log file.  This is high on my priority list to fix.

> My next complaint with it is that it has the articles in reverse order when
> listing them for thread selection, and if you bypass that, you are at the
> last article, instead of the first.

This totally confuses me.  Trn's thread selector lists articles in date
order.  What do you type to bypass the threads selection?  Return from
the last page?  (Not a good choice.)  Try typing tab.

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