henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (05/25/83)
For those people who are using the paging mode of the terminal driver, if you put the line "PAGER=" in your .profile, and add PAGER to one of the "export" lines, news won't bother running your articles through p(1). This will speed things up noticeably, and avoid that silly ":" that the new news sometimes prints. WARNING: Please don't advertise this to folks who aren't sophisticated enough to know what's going on with paging mode. If I can ever find the time to fix two or three remaining difficulties with paging mode, it will become standard for everybody; until then, it's not really a good idea to push it on naive users.