Re: tin 1.5.16 -c bug

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> 	For some time I have been doing 'tin -r -c -f .newsrc_tmp'
> to get a snapshot of read/unread articles. Now I have upgraded to version 

I don't see a usefull reason for doing this. assumin that you keep
the same groups as in your .newsrc in .newsrc_tmp the above would[1]
mark all available articles on the server as read in .newsrc_tmp.
what is this good for?

> 1.5.16 release 20030125 ("Bubbles"). The above command fails with "only 

this is an outdated unstable development version, current stable
version is 1.6.2.

> useful in batch mode operations". So I added -Z. Now it appears to work --

right, -c was ment for batch-mode opperations (-S, -M, -N) only - in
the past this wasn't always honored so I fixed this. without giving
any other option which expliitly enters the batch mode the option is
"ignored". see the comment in the code
(main.c:read_cmd_line_options() about line 436)

         case 'c':
            /* TODO: should -c enter batch-mode? */
            catchup = TRUE;