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From: mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I append a message to my articles?
Message-ID: <1171@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Date: 3 Oct 89 13:28:30 GMT
References: <19939@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <19939@mimsy.UUCP> balinsky@cs.umd.edu (andrew balinsky) writes:
>I am a new user of news, and I would like to know from someone out there how
>I append a quote, disclaimer, etc. to the end of my news postings.  I am using
>rn and vi as my editor.

Well, there are several ways.  First, if your version of rn posts articles
via Pnews, it should give you a couple of questions, like:

   This program posts news to many machines throughout the country.
   Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] 

   Prepared file to include [none]:

Typing the name of a file to the second question will get that file included
at the end of whatever you are posting.  Alternately, you can create a file
called .signature in your home directory, and that file will be automatically
tacked on to your article, but AFTER you exit vi, and tell the Pnews program
that you indeed want to send the article.

And, if all else fails, you can always put your cursor to the spot where you
want the inclusion, and tell vi to read in a file at that position, via the
:r filename command.

>Also, I would like to know how I can get back to articles that I have already
>read.  Once I read an article it usually disappears from the list of articles.
>Is there a way that I can list all articles whether read or unread?  

Again, there have been several macros given to do just this; simply go back
and reread those articles to see how it's done.  Oh, you say you don't know
how? :-) :-)  Sorry, couldn't resist...  If my memory serves me, this is the
command you would type to rn:

?.?r:=

The jist (sp?) of the above command is to search backwards for "." (which
matches any article?), and the "r" tells it to list articles which have
already been read.  Actually, my choice to do this function would be:

^-$ m:=

which would have the added bonus of marking all of the articles in the
newsgroup as unread, so that you could reread them using the regular rn
browsing commands.

>Finally, is this newsgroup the right place for me to be posting questions 
>like this? 

Yep.
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