leo@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (leonard.oppenheimer) (09/14/89)
Hi, y`all, As a three year old user who has recently switched from vnews to rn, I enjoy reading this newsgroup and benefit from it. Thank you! When using rn, I would like to be able to display the header only, and then hit <space> if I want to read the article. The way it is now, I always get the whole first page, which is a pain on this machine as it is very slow. Appreciate any answers. Len Oppenheimer att!opus!leo
lwake@runcible.Sun.COM (Larry Wake - SE Sun LA North - 818-905-0200) (09/15/89)
In article <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> leo@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (leonard.oppenheimer,hr,) writes: >Hi, y`all, > >As a three year old user who has recently switched from vnews to rn, I enjoy >reading this newsgroup and benefit from it. Thank you! And I must say you write very well for your age. Thank *you*. (I've never liked people who post something and say "sorry, I couldn't help myself" but, I just couldn't help myself. Sorry...) -- Larry Wake, Sun Microsystems (lwake@sun.com)
r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr) (09/15/89)
In article <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> leo@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (leonard.oppenheimer,hr,) writes: > [...] >When using rn, I would like to be able to display the header only, and then >hit <space> if I want to read the article. The way it is now, I always get >the whole first page, which is a pain on this machine as it is very slow. The option -i controls how many lines of the article to print initially. The syntax is -i=<number> where <number> is the number of lines you want. I use -i=1 . (I could not get -i=0 to work on my machine.) The easiest way to set this (as well as any other options you want to be set always) is to put it into the RNINIT environment variable. Put this into your .profile file: export RNINIT RNINIT='-i=0' You might also want to reduce the number of header lines printed. You control this with "-h<header>" and "+h<header>". (-h suppresses the designated header line.) My RNINIT is: RNINIT='-e -i=1 -m=u -M -S1 -h +hdate +hfrom +hkeywords +hlines +horganization +hsender +hsummary +hsubject' (This should be all one line. I have split it into 2 lines here because some terminals have trouble with long lines.) The "-h" turns off all headers, and the "+h..." fields turn on the headers I want. -- Dick Grady r_r_grady@att.com ...!att!mvuxd!r4
maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (09/16/89)
leo@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (leonard.oppenheimer) writes:
\As a three year old user who has recently switched from vnews to rn, I enjoy
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\reading this newsgroup and benefit from it. Thank you!
Watch progress! When I was three years old, I still had difficulties to
read at all!
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creat(2) shouldn't have been create(2): |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
it shouldn't have existed at all. |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maartoliver@athena.mit.edu (James D. Oliver III) (09/18/89)
In article <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> leo@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (leonard.oppenheimer,hr,) writes: >When using rn, I would like to be able to display the header only, and then >hit <space> if I want to read the article. The way it is now, I always get >the whole first page, which is a pain on this machine as it is very slow. At the prompt for the group, hit the "=", key, which will display the subject lines for the articles. Also, in my RNINIT file, I have the following command, which prints out a more detailed subject line including the number of lines and the author -ESUBJLINE="\ %(%[subject] \ =^\\(..............................................\\)?\ %1:%[subject]) \ %(%(%[lines]=^$?%z: (%[lines]\\))= *\\(.....\\)$\\|\\(.*\\)?%0) \ %(%(%f=(\\(.*[^ ].*\\))$?%1:%f) \ =^\\(...................\\)?%1)" (I didn't write this, I got it from a posting in news.misc, and unfortunately don't know who did). Rn seems to run a little slower with the expanded subject lines, though. ____________________________ Jim Oliver oliver@athena.mit.edu oliver%mitwccf.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) (09/20/89)
In article <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> (leonard.oppenheimer,hr,) writes: > [...] >When using rn, I would like to be able to display the header only, and then >hit <space> if I want to read the article. The way it is now, I always get >the whole first page, which is a pain on this machine as it is very slow. When you press the "=" key at article or newsgroup level you will get the Subject lines of the articles in that newsgroup. This comes close to what you want. It is possible to change the output format used with "=" . But then you have to "RTFM" :-) +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | The smoker you drink,| Gert Kanis, SWP | | the W.C. | Nixdorf Computer BV, Postbus 29 | |----------------------| 4130 EA Vianen, Netherlands. | | I do not represent | E-mail : targon!gert@nluug.nl | | anyone elses opinion.| or ..!mcsun!hp4nl!targon!gert | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+