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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)
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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. 
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