Subject: Problems with news saved as mail

From: [email-masked] (Phil Howle)
Date: 20 Dec 94 09:00:49 -0500

I am using xvnews as my news reader (yes, I know I could use pine) and after
saving a news article I try and read it using pine. It comes up that the mail
file is (READONLY) but it seems that it has added an extra header and does not
use the headers in the saved news file. 

I have tried using mail and this quite happily reads the inbuilt headers.

Is there any way to make pine read the saved news files.

Many thanks,

Phil

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From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 21 Dec 1994 03:33:33 GMT

Comes here Mr. Phil Howle with this opinion in the"comp.mail.pine" group in this article on 20 Dec 94 09:00:49 -0500:

 +  I am using xvnews as my news reader (yes, I know I could use pine) and after
 +  saving a news article Itry and read it using pine. It comes up that the mail
 +  file is (READONLY) but it seems that it has added an extra header and does
 +  not use the headers in the saved news file. 
 +  Is there any way to make pine read the saved news files.

That's weird...it works fine for me...

While you are saving an article from xvnews have you by any chance set it to
save them with read permission only? (ls -al filename ---> r------- ??)

I saved a file from tin, then chmod the file to 400 and then did pine -f file
which then gave me (READONLY) access error message. By default it should be
read/write able by the owner of the file.

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