Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re:L Keywords: How do you use it correctly? - DON'T Message-ID: <1525@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 8 Aug 89 14:14:27 GMT References: <488@sppy00.UUCP> <57028@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Distribution: usa Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 28 In-reply-to: lum@armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) Inserting a Control-L into a news message is not a good thing to do. Some terminals and/or news readers do not pause when they see ^L In some cases - it might clear the screen or do something equally offensive. Instead - just insert a few blank lines if you want to delay the punchline to a joke. Some news readers will pause before they see the character sequence preceeding a signature: -- You might want to use that instead. To change rn to do this, you can set the environment variable RNINIT to have the following string: -EPAGESTOP=^--\ or -EPAGESTOP=^-- which will cause a pause on the lines separating digest articles as well as signatures. I think that will work. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett barnett@crdgw1.UUCP