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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
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 18:51:57 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jun-84 18:51:57 EDT
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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
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