Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!ucla-cs!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!jade!morris From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Killing a screenful? Message-ID: <1618@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 19 Aug 89 05:57:30 GMT References: <15069@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <13558@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <13570@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>Sender: news@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Reply-To: morris@jade.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Mike Morris) Lines: 20 (Rodney Peck II) writes: >WDS> David Datta e-mailed me the solution: >>You can hit [control] C during the printing of the text (in 'rn') I >>also needed the exact same thing as I usually do the same thing. >WDS> And it works -- be aware, though, ^C kills the printing of the >WDS> _entire_ article-in-progress, not just the printing of the current >WDS> screenful. And, incidentally, this _isn't_ in TFM. > >no, that is part of Unix which has it's own manuals. You can stop >just about anything with control c. Including "rn"! Be careful you don't hit multiple ^Cs - you can kill rn real easy, and (depending on how your system is set up, you might find that...) the error trapping takes over and restores your .newsrc, and you'll have to re-read everything... Mike Morris UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov #Include quote.cute.standard | The opinions above probably do not even come cat flames.all > /dev/null | close to those of my employer(s), if any.