Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!tim
From: tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: List of subjects in an already read group
Keywords: do it by magic
Message-ID: <1626@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 89 14:57:25 GMT
References: <1802@draken.nada.kth.se> <9817@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson)
Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario
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In article <9817@cbnews.ATT.COM> r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr,54354,mv,3a018,508 960 6182) writes:
>In article <1802@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
>>  I require a quick method of peeking at subject lines of an already
>>  read group... in short I'd like to skip the manual steps involved in
>>
>>  1. typing g xxx.yyy.zzz    -- go to selected group
   ---- stuff deleted ----
>>  5. typing =                -- to get the subject-lines list from
>>                             -- which a selection can be made.
   ---- stuff deleted ----
>
>My approach uses only 3 steps:
>
>  1. type  g xxx.yyy.zzz    -- go to selected group
>  2. type  y                -- YES to "0 in xxx.yyy.zzz - read?"
>  3. type  ?.?r=            -- print subjects of all articles (read or not)
>
>This will print the subjects in reverse order, i.e., most recent first.

This seems all well and good, but I just tried it, and not all of
the subject lines were printed.

The command I use, instead of "?.?r=", is a non-documented command.
(At least non-documented as far as I can see in the manual.)
I don't know if this is a valid command or if it only works on my
system, but it seems to do more than the "=".
The command is "D", that is the upper-case d. (I call it shift-d 8-))

This command only seems to work when there is at least one un-read
article in a newsgroup, though I can't figure out why.
What is displayed is the article number, read status (y/n), and the
subject line.

If anyone knows more about "D" perhaps you could send me some e-mail,
describing this command in all it's uses.

        later & later,

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