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From: borman@stolaf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: built-in pager for readnews
Message-ID: <1066@stolaf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 22:12:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: stolaf.1066
Posted: Mon Jun 27 22:12:41 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 01:08:31 EDT
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield MN
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	I have just posted the sources and diffs to implement a built-in
	pager to readnews. Advantages of it are:
	1) You can get rid of the ':' stuff from readnews.
	2) Articles should never scroll off the screen
	   (except if Murphy is around...)
	3) You can get the header of the article at any time while
	   in the pager.
	4) You can BACK UP to pages you've already read (except in
	   the case of the 'D' command (decrypting) but that's only
	   used for jokes anyway...)
	5) You can save the article w/header right from the pager.
	6) You don't have to fork ten zillion proccess while
	   reading news. (very helpful on smaller machines...)

	Install it, try it out, enjoy it (almost everyone at our site
	uses it) and send me your comments, questions, improvements,
	and any problems that you might encounter in installing it.

	(Gee, if enough people like it, mayby they'll include it in
	the next version of news...)

			-Dave Borman, St. Olaf College
			{ihnp4, harpo}!stolaf!borman