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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.solaris,wco.general Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!iglou!iglou2!bmarcum From: bmarcum@iglou2.iglou.com (Bill Marcum) Subject: Re: ** HELP: How to use rn/trn '=' cmd w/o jumping to 1st subject line? ** X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iglou2 Message-ID: <Dw96K6.8Fs@iglou.com> Followup-To: news.software.readers Sender: news@iglou.com (News Administrator) Organization: IgLou Internet Services (1-800-436-4456) References: <4v2l42$gh9@news.wco.com> Distribution: inet Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:00:06 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1314 comp.unix.misc:24580 comp.unix.questions:86065 comp.unix.solaris:79027 In article <4v2l42$gh9@news.wco.com>, <ai@shell.wco.com> wrote: >Hello, > >I'm having a problem using the rn or trn UNIX shell news >reader utilities. > >After having carefully read (I thought!) the man pages for the >news reader utils: trn and rn, I still can't seem to figure >out how to use the '=' command for displaying subject lines >beginning with a certain subject line#. > If you use trn, you can use "+" instead of "=". This shows a list of subjects with letters instead of numbers, and you can select several subjects, then read them, optionally junking all unselected messages. -- Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Marx (or was it Twain?)