BASP: Article selection problem in trn 3.4.1

        Wayne Davison <trn@clari.net>

> When I do an article selection with 'A' and then '+' using trn 3.3 I get
> the following in my kill-file:
>
> /: *test/:++
>
> Assuming the title is "test". When I enter the newsgroup it does the
> selection properly. With trn 3.4.1 I get:
>
> /: *test/:I:++
>
> When I enter the newsgroup I get:
>
> Processing memorized commands...
>
> /: *test/:I:++
>
> 9220    ???I:++
>
> (Interrupted at article 9220)
>
> And no articles get selected.  If I remove the :I then it works just like
> trn 3.3.  Is there something different in this case between 3.3 and 3.4.1?

This is a slight botch in 3.4.1 that got fixed in version 3.5 --
the 'I' is a modifier to ignore the THRU line and should have read:
"/: *test/I:++", but an extra ':' got stuck in there.

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