wdstarr%charon.local@charon.mit.edu (William December Starr) (08/27/89)
TFM (The Manual) says this about the PAGESTOP environment
variable:
There is some overhead involved in matching each line of the
article against a regular expression. You might wish to use
a baud-rate modifier to enable this feature only at low baud
rates.
And this about the baud-rate modifiers:
Any switch may be selectively applied according to the
current baud-rate. Simply prefix the switch with +speed to
apply the switch at that speed or greater, and -speed to
apply the switch at that speed or less. Examples: -1200-
hposted suppresses the Posted line at 1200 baud or less;
+9600-m enables marking at 9600 baud or more. You can apply
the modifier recursively to itself also: +300-1200-t sets
terse mode from 300 to 1200 baud.
So now I know how to apply baud-rate modifiers to switches, but
not how to apply them to the setting of environmental variables.
What I want to do is to instruct RN to use "-- <cr>" as a
pagestop, but only when I'm operating at 1200 baud or less. How
do I do this? (TFM tells me the theory behind it, but not how to
actually do it.)
--
William December Starr, Northeastern U. Class of '90 (Poly Sci/pre-law)
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