Re: What Happened to Cancel

huug (huug@telebyte.nl)
Tue, 01 Oct 1996 02:23:00 +0200

In <c4bTyUjRQY9S092yn@netcom.com> (read in lists.yarn),
skoper@netcom.com (Stan Koper) wrote:
>In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.960927193452.8716A-100000@zot.io.org>,
>Chin Huang <cthuang@io.org> wrote:
>>On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Stan Koper wrote:
>>> So where *is* "cancel" in
>>> Yarn 0.91?
>>
>>View the article and press the 'c' key.
>>
>That's really weird...I'm using yarn 0.92, and here I am sitting
>at my home machine, I'm looking at my posted article, I press the
>'c' key, and there it is--do you want to cancel ? So I go back
>and press f1, and look at the list of commands, and there it is,
>c for cancel. But I would swear that my system at work, which I
>thought also has version 0.92, (or if not, then 0.91) *doesn't*
>have c for cancel. I'll have to check it Monday. I'm glad it
>still works!

It works -even in this old 0.89-, but only where your newsserver has
send back your article in the newsgroup(s) you posted it to. After
hitting 'c', 'y', you'll get something like this in your Shift-R news
folder:

From: huug@telebyte.nl (huug)
Newsgroups: nl.taal,nl.politiek
Subject: cancel
Control: cancel <EqySykJC78Vd089yn@telebyte.nl>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 02:21:56 +0200
Organization: voluntary
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-ID: <kQGUykJC7Qpe089yn@telebyte.nl>
Lines: 1

<EqySykJC78Vd089yn@telebyte.nl> cancelled from yarn
--End of message--

(Yep never saw that one:)

In short, if your yarn-at-work doesn't show the "press c to cancel"
option in its news help file, upgrade its help files.

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