dwight@timeb.UUCP (Dwight Ernest) (01/26/85)
We are using vnews version B 2.10.2 of 9/18/84. Has anyone else noted the apparent omissijMon of any kind of functional digest handling? I miss it, and prefer responding to digests with 'e', then returning to them with the old 'readnews' package to break up a digest into individual messages. I may simply be naively missing something that's otherwise obvious. If so, I'd sure appreciate having it pointed out. Thanks. -- --Dwight Ernest KA2CNN \ Usenet:...vax135!timeinc!dwight Time Inc. Editorial Technology Group, New York City Voice: (212) 554-5061 \ Compuserve: 70210,523 Telemail: DERNEST/TIMECOMDIV/TIMEINC \ MCI: DERNEST "The opinions expressed above are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Time Incorporated." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (02/14/85)
> Has anyone else noted the apparent omission of > any kind of functional digest handling? I miss it, and > prefer responding to digests with 'e', then returning to them > with the old 'readnews' package to break up a digest into > individual messages. I don't know what "readnews" offers, but if you compile "vnews" with "-DDIGPAGE", it will start each article in a digest on a new screen (I just tried in on "fa.telecom", and it seems to work). Try it and see if it's what you want; if not, maybe mention what you'd like as a suggestion for a new "vnews" feature. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (02/14/85)
P.S. to my earlier posting: the "-DDIGPAGE" code in "vnews" treats a bunch
of "-"s as a digest separator, which confuses the heck out of it when reading
things like Gene Spafford's list of active newsgroups.
Guy Harris
{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guymmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (02/24/85)
I posted a request a few weeks ago about how to extract an article
from a digest using "rn", and got the same kind of response as Guy
Harris offered to the query about vnews -- there is a way to SEE
individual items, but apparently no way to SAVE them. I, too, go
to "readnews" and use the "d" command to deal with digests. Since
fa.info-mac has gone over to digest form, this deficiency in "rn"
(and presumably "vnews") is doubly annoying.
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Martin Taylor
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