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From: smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: A gripe about 2.10 readnews
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Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 07:51:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 07:51:18 1983
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	From chris@umcp-cs.UUCP Tue Jun 14 19:53:08 1983
	Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.164
	Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.

	One thing I'd very much like in 2.10's invocation of more is the
	use of a temp file.  More (and page) are much nicer on real files:
	they tell you how far you are; you can go back, or search forward;
	you can invoke VI on the file [and more!  Hey, this sounds like an
	advertisement.].  This shouldn't be too hard.

			- Chris ({seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!chris)
Why use a temp file?  News knows where the file is!  I never understood
why news was sent as stdin to more when more could be invoked with
the news as an argument.  An added benefit is that you can then see
how much of the file you've read (like you said) AND can use :p to
reread the file without having to go through the readnews interface
again and reinvoking more.
-- 
--steve kramer
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