Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew From: edhew@xenitec.uucp (Ed Hew) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Culling from subject line listings in rn. Message-ID: <1989Aug13.081359.6819@xenitec.uucp> Date: 13 Aug 89 08:13:59 GMT References: <3136@yunexus.UUCP> Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew) Followup-To: news.newusers.questions Distribution: na Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON Lines: 27 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 >(I'm on a VT-100), let's say numbered from 50001 to 50023. >Nothing interesting, so I press space for the next 23, and so on. >Then, aha, a juicy title, say at 50234, and (this is important) >I want to read it *now*. > >Hoping there's a better way. Also hoping I'm not going to bounce >the heel of my hand of my forehead in a vertical direction and >moan "of course, why didn't I think of that ... " I always simply type in the number of the article when I first find out what that number is (based on where you suggest you are in 'rn'). You are then reading it. This may vary depending on the vaguaries your sysadmin has tossed into rn when compiling it, so if you get different results, you may want to query him/her. Ed. A. Hew Authorized Technical Trainer Xeni/Con Corporation work: edhew@xenicon.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}utai!lsuc!xenicon!edhew ->home: edhew@egvideo.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}watmath!egvideo!edhew ->home: changing to: edhew@xenitec.uucp [but be patient for new maps] # I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on floppy around here somewhere!