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Re: Memory trashing Snews bug

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 00:00
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walter briscoe (walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> While reading news in Snews 1.30, I tried to forward a response to the
> message below.

> A ? appeared on my screen and nothing further made any difference until
> I did a warm reboot.

Known problem, the prompt line is too long and wraps over itself. Had
you pressed 'y' to to answer the prompt, snews would have carried on
normally.

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Malcolm S. Muir                               Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                    322 Regents Park Road
England                                       London N3 2QQ
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Subject: Re: Memory trashing Snews bug
Date: 1996/05/05
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