baileyc@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) (09/14/89)
How do I get rn to display only the header of each post/message on the net??? Right now, I get the header and however much of each message can fit on my screen. Thanks.
khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) (09/14/89)
In article <11650@boulder.Colorado.EDU> baileyc@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) writes: >How do I get rn to display only the header of each post/message on >the net??? Right now, I get the header and however much of each >message can fit on my screen. Thanks. well, according to the rn man page, the rn option -i=<number> specifies how many lines to consider as the length of the initial page. if the number of lines specified is smaller than the number of lines in the header, then the entire header is displayed and none of the article text. thus, if you start rn with -i=1 you will get the desired result. this is normally the case for low baud rates. so you can either alias rn to 'rn -i=1' or set the RNINIT environment variable to include "-i=1" in it. there are many more possibilities with a program as powerful as rn, so read the manual. v. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ARPA: khera@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science CSNET: khera@duke Duke University UUCP: {mcnc,decvax}!duke!khera Durham, NC 27706
bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (09/15/89)
In article <11650@boulder.Colorado.EDU> baileyc@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) writes: >How do I get rn to display only the header of each post/message on >the net??? Right now, I get the header and however much of each >message can fit on my screen. Thanks. A new school year begins. :-( Look, kids, RTFM. I know the man page for rn/vnews/whateverthehellyouuse is long, but imagine if we get into discussing everything in it just because you didn't take care of 99% of that discussion just by R'ing TFM. You could also post this to news.misc, rather than comp.unix.questions, since unix has zero to do with news readers, except in how they interface with peripherals and communicate with other machines. --Blair "Not even an answer to this question, because I didn't know it myself until I had read it in the manual page."
tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson) (09/15/89)
In article <4156@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >In article <11650@boulder.Colorado.EDU> baileyc@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) writes: >>How do I get rn to display only the header of each post/message on >>the net??? Right now, I get the header and however much of each >>message can fit on my screen. Thanks. > >A new school year begins. :-( > >Look, kids, RTFM. > >I know the man page for rn/vnews/whateverthehellyouuse is long, but >imagine if we get into discussing everything in it just because you >didn't take care of 99% of that discussion just by R'ing TFM. > ola, * first an apology to Blair for sending this to him instead of 'followup'. I have read the man page, and some of the documentation for rn, but I have failed to find an explanation for the following command: D (that's right, an uppercase d) I use this command instead of the '=' in most cases. The part I don't understand about this command is this, when I type 'D' at the newsgroup prompt, it returns a line similar to: Trys 34 Hits 34 Perhaps someone out there can explain this. I hope I have been clear on this. later & later, ========== tim (nelson) | uucp ...!uunet!attcan!ncrcan!tim ncr canada | internet tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (416) 826-9000 x442 | 6865 Century Ave, Mississauga, Ontario ========== * Have a good day, and a great forever.
greg@tolerant.UUCP (Greg Kastanek) (09/20/89)
In article <11650@boulder.Colorado.EDU> baileyc@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) writes: >How do I get rn to display only the header of each post/message on >the net??? Right now, I get the header and however much of each >message can fit on my screen. Thanks. I realize my question isn't directly related to the subject, but it does have to do with rn. Could someone either send me some documentation describing how to build a kill file, or else provide me with a good source for such documentation? Rn's on-line help is rather limited, as is the man page for rn, at least where kill files are concerned. What I've concocted so far seems to work for most things, but not everything. Any assistance would be appreciated. gk