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Re: Starting New Topic With trn

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From: Sean Eric Fagan
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 22:22
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In article <1992Oct29.193843.14643@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>It's only in the last month or less that starting a
>new topic starts a new thread, due to the patch fix. Before that,
>trn 2.2 started a new topic in the existing thread, unless one
>used the $ key to go to the end of the threads in a particular
>newsgroup.

I have not updated my copy of trn since Nov 22, 1991.  I do not have the bug
you described.  I can correctly use 'f' to start a new thread, with an empty
References: line, different subject, etc.  I tried it before I pointed out
your mistake the last time, and, yes, it worked.

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Message-ID: <1992Oct29.222251.27235@kithrup.COM>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
References: <1992Oct26.193720.12111@netcom.com> <Bww6B2.ApG@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Oct29.193843.14643@netcom.com>

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Newsgroups: netcom.general,netcom.software,news.software.readers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Starting New Topic With trn
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 22:22:51 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Oct29.222251.27235@kithrup.COM>
References: <1992Oct26.193720.12111@netcom.com> <Bww6B2.ApG@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Oct29.193843.14643@netcom.com>
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