First of all, it's nice, for a change, to get a *real* email from Lvirden, actually sent by larry himself, and not some spam-generator that's somehow broken into his computer and grabbed my email-addr from somewhere there. I've been getting maybe one per day. On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:35:48AM -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote: > I have a problem for which I'd love to locate or implement a solution > Before I start thinking about hacking, I thought I would ask to see if > something is already here. > > I often select a series of articles and do one save of the group to a file. > Unfortunately, when asked for a file name, I occasionally type in a name > that not only is wrong, but at times could never be right. You mean like "s foo.bax"? (instead of foo.bar) > In these cases, trn has no mechanism that I've found to tell it to stop > asking me about things . What happens when I (deliberately) do that, and that explicitly named file (foo.bax) doesn't exist, trn asks if I want it to be started in mailbox format, and prompts "y, n, q", and typing q works just dandy. > (the same problem exists when getting into the mode of being asked whether > I want to subscribe to new newsgroups - if it turns out that 300 newsgroups > were created over night, I'm stuck answering all these prompts). I say "trn -p", and when I get into it, the first thing might be a list of newsgroups (newly available at my isp) (oh, I use a shell acct), eg 30 new groups from M$, *none* of which I care one iota about, so I simply hit <return>, and poof, my normal screen of subscribed-to groups comes up. Easy. Clearly, something's different about either your trn or the dot-files for it. > I'd love to find some way to tell trn, when its asking me a question, > 'PLEASE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW and return to the state right > before the questions began' > Maybe someone else can say exactly *why* you're getting this horrible behavior. David _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm
