Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: '.' subcommand in readnews Message-ID: <3967@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 18:51:57 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3967 Posted: Wed Jun 20 18:51:57 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jun-84 18:51:57 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 7 Department of Frivolous Terminal Dependency: readnews now has a "." subcommand, synonymous with "n". The reason is that the Ampex terminals (and others) have a "." but not an "n" in their numeric keypads. Having the "." command makes it a lot easier to read news one-handed. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry