[3476] in SIPB bug reports
GRIPE about XRN 6.18beta (patch level 0)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (System PRIVILEGED Account)
Sat Jan 30 22:33:56 1993
From: root@Athena.MIT.EDU (System PRIVILEGED Account)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 22:33:45 -0500
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
X VERSION, RELEASE, and PATCH LEVEL:
[i.e., X Version 11, Release 4, Patch Level 18]
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CLIENT MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM:
[e.g., DECStation 5000/200 running Ultrix 4.2, ...]
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NEWS SYSTEM and VERSION:
[e.g., Cnews, Bnews, InterNet News, ...]
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SYNOPSIS:
[brief description of the problem and where it is located]
This is not a bug report; it is a suggestion to increase the utility of the
software. (actually three suggestions)
1) It would be nice if help were easily obtianed from within XRN.. Esp. for
ambiguous or complex operations. (I know, subjective. But, thats the point)
2) a CASE INSENSITIVE way of doing searches- spec: in read-a-group mode,
being able to search the subj. headers and catch, as an example,
`LAPTOP FOR SALE', `Laptop for sale', and the lazy `laptop' all with
one search would be nice. Also, a way to do compound searches (or
if thee is one, more obvious)
3) A way to search in newsgroups mode. ie: i may not know what all of the
forsale groups are, and having a search feature would find all of
them without my having to waste wetware cycles doing a manual or
out-of-xrn search.
2 & 3 should be easy (a few added lines- the search engines are already in
the system) and 1 would make xrn a lot easier for the novice. Note that
I haven't rtfm'd because I so rarely use xrn that if there is a fm avail,
I don't know where it is.
Otherwise, I fine xrn to be a great util-- much better than any line-by-line
I've seen. The first Xutil I prefer to the vt[123]x0 version.
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DESCRIPTION:
[detailed description]
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REPEAT BY:
[what you did to get the error]
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SAMPLE FIX:
[preferred, but not necessary. Please send context diffs (diff -c -b)]
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Thanx for your time.
