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From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: List of subjects in an already read group
Keywords: do it by magic
Message-ID: <9817@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 14:14:45 GMT
References: <1802@draken.nada.kth.se>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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
>  2. typing y                -- YES to "0 in xxx.yyy.zzz - read?"
>  3. typing #                -- to find the last article#
>  4. typing <#-100>-<#>      -- that is, typing some arbitrarily lower
>                             -- (than #) figure-dash-last article number
>                             -- to mark the previous 100 (or so) unread
>  5. typing =                -- to get the subject-lines list from
>                             -- which a selection can be made.
>
>  There's got to be a simpler way to do it, something along the
>  lines of `.g xxx.yyy.zzz'

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.
When you see the one you want, stop the listing with your interrupt key
(BREAK, CTRL-C, etc.).  To view the article, type its number.
Note that this command sequence does not affect the read/unread status
of the articles.  If you know some text in the subject, put that text
between the question marks:
       ?foo?r=
restricts the printing to articles with "foo" in the subject.
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Dick Grady              r_r_grady@att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4