🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, they were not really both problems with tin. I just decided
to find the cause for two things that always got on my nerves. This
information might be helpful to you, too.

1. The current 1.3 beta is rather slow when it comes to scanning
   news. You can speed this up a lot if you add this line to your
   tin script before tin.exe is called:

        Set TZ `getenv TZ`

   Using TZ via the local environment is _much_ faster until the
   actual scanning code is reworked.

2. For a long time my news postings had "(Heinz Wrobel   )" as
   name in the header with three spaces before the closing quote.
   For a long time I was too lazy to find the reason.
   This line in the tin script was the reason:

        Set REALNAME "Heinz Wrobel"   ; your real name

    Why? ReadArgs() parsing gets in the way here for some reason.
    The "set" template is "NAME,STRING/F". The line above will be
    parsed as "Set", "REALNAME", "Heinz Wrobel   ", i.e. the three
    spaces before the ";" will be taken as part of the argument and
    the quotes will be discarded. Hmpfh. The solution is to kill
    the comments in all "Set" lines within the tin script:

        Set REALNAME "Heinz Wrobel"

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Heinz Wrobel        Private Mail:   heinz@hwg.muc.de
My private FAX: +49 89 850 51 25, I prefer email