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From: ai@shell.wco.com ( )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.solaris,wco.general
Subject: ** HELP: How to use rn/trn '=' cmd w/o jumping to 1st subject line? **
Date: 16 Aug 1996 20:19:14 GMT
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Hello,
I'm having a problem using the rn or trn UNIX shell news
reader utilities.
After having carefully read (I thought!) the man pages for the
news reader utils: trn and rn, I still can't seem to figure
out how to use the '=' command for displaying subject lines
beginning with a certain subject line#.
(from the man pages:
= Do this newsgroup now, but list subjects before
displaying articles.
)
PROBLEM:
When I read news, I normally first run the '=' command to get
a listing of the first 20 subject lines. I hit the space bar
to display the next 20 subject lines.
Let's say they are numbered #1000 - #1019.
If I decide to read #1018, I type this # and the posting appears.
When I types #1018 - this meant that I was not interested in
any posting with a # < 1018 at this point.
Now I want to go back to displaying subject lines again but
beginning with #1019 and *not* #1000 all over again.
QUESTIONS:
In rn or trn - how can I 'bounce' back and forth between
displaying subject lines, reading a particular posting, then
displaying subject lines again - but without have to spacebar
through all the subject lines I've already read ?!?
Is there some way to tell the '=' command that I don't
want to display subject lines from the beginning/that I
already viewed? (ie giving '=' some line # to start
from ?)
Thanks in advance for any help/pointers on this:
ai@wco.com