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This seems more like a bug report, not a discussion about
development, so I imagine more appropriate in d.i.s.pc?
I've x-posted there accordingly, and set follow-ups there.
Hope that's ok with you Walter?

On Saturday, in article <831216564snz@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk>
     walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk "walter briscoe" wrote:

wb> While reading news in Snews 1.30, I tried to forward a response to the
wb> message below.
wb> 
wb> A ? appeared on my screen and nothing further made any difference until
wb> I did a warm reboot.
wb> 
wb> I assume this is a known problem.  If so, can somebody please describe
wb> the mechanism.  Otherwise, I shall put it on my buglist.
wb> 
wb> > Path: wbriscoe.demon.co.uk!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!
wb>   peer.news.xara.net!xara.net!news.insnet.net!netcom.net.uk!netcom.com!
wb>   ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!
wb>   cdc2.cdc.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!winternet.com!solon.com!not-for-mail
wb> > From: shappir@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Shappir Dan)
wb> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated,comp.lang.c++.moderated
wb> > Subject: Re: help with loading call stack
wb> > Followup-To: comp.lang.c.moderated,comp.lang.c++.moderated
wb> > Date: 2 May 1996 07:39:23 -0500
wb> > Organization: School of Math & CS - Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , ISRAEL.
wb> > Lines: 30
wb> > Sender: clc@solutions.solon.com
wb> > Approved: clc@solutions.solon.com
wb> > References: <4lup10$s70@solutions.solon.com>
wb> > NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com
wb> > X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
wb> > Xref: news.demon.co.uk comp.lang.c.moderated:4079 comp.lang.c++.moderated:3556
wb> > Message-ID: <4maadr$h63@solutions.solon.com>

I think this kind of experience is quite widespread.  It can be
very frustrating when it first hits you.  But the clue is the '?'.

Assume that everything is still working ok, except that the screen
is not being updated as you would wish.  Press the key that would
be appropriate (in this case, probably 'y').  Few keys will have
any effect, because Snews just throws away inappropriate keystrokes
when it's waiting for the answer to a question.

It would be nice if <esc> _always_ had a sensible result, that
way I think it would be much easier to live with this problem,
and most users would intuitively recover before resorting to
the 3-fingered poke or big red switch.

Another thing that helps a lot is using a wider screen display.
That way Snews stands a better chance of fitting everything on
the screen and not showing this symptom.  I run a 132-col screen
in Snews, and go many months without this biting me.  (It also
helps make postings readable from dozy Windozers who don't
restrict their articles to 80 cols, and don't know that
d.ip.s.pc is only for MSDOS problems).  (Not that I _want_ to
read them, of course).  ;-)

I've not examined your header in detail, it may be something
quite different.  But I thought it would be worth mentioning
the above points anyway, in case it helps someone else.

--
John Washington