[1016] in SIPB bug reports
xrn 6.7, RT 6.4R: checkpointing .newsrc file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Apr 15 07:05:29 1990
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 90 07:05:03 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of Wed, 14 Mar 90 14:22:29 -0500 <9003141922.AA18234@prometheus.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 14:22:29 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Given that you don't get a second chance to save a .newsrc file when
exiting xrn, turning updateNewsrc on by default seems like a good
idea. This bit me last night; because I hadn't realized that my
tokens expired, none of the articles I read yesterday in any newsgroup
got marked as read.
I'd have to disagree, since this involves an extra disk access each
time article mode exits.
Since it's a resource, you can set it to true in your own resources.
Besides, this is only going to be a big problem for people who are on
AFS.
jik
