Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!orion!houca!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!essick From: essick@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: A gripe about 2.10 readnews - (nf) Message-ID: <2248@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 22:31:05 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.2248 Posted: Thu Jun 16 22:31:05 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 18:28:17 EDT Lines: 26 #R:umcp-cs:-16400:uiucdcs:10900022:000:1187 uiucdcs!essick Jun 16 12:47:00 1983 On the idea of invoking the PAGER with the actual file instead of just the body so users can take advantage of the pager's features: "More" has the ability to start up the printout at a given line number. Since news has (presumably) figured out how many lines of headers there are, it can tell "more" to skip that many. [As a side note, if the news software knows that the article is a notesfile article - which it can get by reading the first few lines of the article - it can bump the count so that users don't have to see those embarassing notesfile headers I put into the text *sigh*] If people want to reread the article without going through back through news they might have to wade through the headers, but such is life. For people without "more", there are several alternatives, (1) stay with the old way, (2) suffer through the headers, (3) port "more" to your machine, or (4) write a quick and dirty tool that will do the job. If the first three fail, writing such a tool can't be more than 20 minutes work -- have it strip the first few lines and put the remainder somewhere else (/tmp/art.$$) and invoke a stock paging program. -- Ray Essick, University of Illinois