Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site linus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!smk From: smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: A gripe about 2.10 readnews Message-ID: <26885@linus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 07:51:18 EDT Article-I.D.: linus.26885 Posted: Wed Jun 15 07:51:18 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 06:40:51 EDT References: <164@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford MA Lines: 22 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 {allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!smk (UUCP) linus!smk@mitre-bedford (ARPA)