whm (07/01/82)
Here's a feature that would be super easy to put in B news. (I hope this isn't redundant.) Something in my brain wants to know how far I yet have to go when I'm doing something; when I'm reading something, I'll see what the last page is; when I'm driving somewhere I'll watch for the mileage signs; I look at my watch in class alot; etc. In B news, a # response to the prompt will yield the number of articles in a group, and thus I can see how far I have to read to finish off the group. I'm getting ready to hack a version of readnews for myself that will indicate the number of articles in a group along with the article number, e.g.: Article 15 of 25 .... or Article 15/25 Perhaps this would be a good thing to put in the standard version of B news. Bill Mitchell