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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Culling from subject line listings in rn.
Message-ID: <4485@statware.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 17:09:46 GMT
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In article <3136@yunexus.UUCP> tony@yunexus.UUCP (Tony Wallis) writes:
>I'm in rn, and it says
>      "*** 666 unread articles in alt.sox -- read now? [ynq]"
>and let's say I'm going to pick out maybe 10 of those to read from the
>subject lines.  So I type "=" and it gives me the first 23 subjects
>...

There was a patch to rn posted to comp.sources.misc (I think that
is the right group) which will start you at one greater than the
article you selected with the next use of "=".  If you cannot find
it, I'll see if I still have it around.  This was several months
ago that it came through, but an archive site should have it yet.

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