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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
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 20:18:53 1983
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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