rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) (06/17/85)
>To: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!rcj >Subject: Survey results on SPOILER to indicate answers >References: <737@burl.UUCP> > >You misunderstand about rn. Rn interprets a FORMFEED (^L) as a page >break. Since some other news readers just pass on the ^L unchanged, >and some terminals clear the screen on receipt of it, the ^L which works >so nicely with rn has exactly the wrong effect for some other people. >However, a whole screenful of blank lines (say 24 linefeeds) does the >desired thing with most or all news reading interfaces. > >I don't think this is an appropriate technique for net.puzzle, though. >If a reader finds a problem interesting, it is up to them not to start >reading articles that might be spoilers. It's true that rn doesn't pause >before each article and show you the subject line, but it DOES pause AFTER >each article, and what you should do is the = command which lists the >Subject lines of all unread articles in the group. This is the careful >way to read messages. > >Another rn technique is to temporarily reset the -i option while in >net.puzzle, and so cause rn to pause before it gets to the body of the article. >This is done by putting something like &-i=5 followed by X&-i=24 in the >local kill file for net.puzzle. (I think that's right; I haven't >used this myself.) > >Mark Brader >You may post this if you wish. > Thanks, Mark; good points all -- sorry about the misinformation regarding rn and linefeeds. -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj