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From: essick@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: A gripe about 2.10 readnews - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 22:31:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 16 22:31:05 1983
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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