Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!ee163ht From: ee163ht@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: A gripe about 2.10 readnews Message-ID: <748@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 20:18:53 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.748 Posted: Wed Jun 15 20:18:53 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jun-83 12:48:17 EDT Lines: 14 Of course, the reason readnews doesn't use the real news file and sends the file through stdin to more (or whatever) is because readnews weeds out all the boring headers. If more just read from the real file, half a page of headers for each article would get pretty boring pretty fast. Also, readnews tells you how long the file is in lines. This can give you a pretty good idea of how long the file is. It might *even* be possible for readnews to print '(10 lines/654 chars) More?'. But it would be nice to be able to just say :p and reread the file without going back through readnews... It seems that creating a temporary file would be too slow, though. Allyn Fratkin UC San Diego