Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!russ From: russ@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Russell Reynolds) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: marking as read Message-ID: <35688@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 2 Aug 89 01:00:57 GMT References: <3281@internal.Apple.COM> Reply-To: russ@bu-it.bu.edu (Russell Reynolds) Followup-To: news.newusers.questions Distribution: na Organization: Boston University Lines: 16 In article <3281@internal.Apple.COM> kanner@Apple.COM (Herbert Kanner) writes: >With one of the less elaborate predecessors of rn, there was a simple >command which would read all news items to the bit bucket--the >equivalent of marking them all as read. This was a handy thing to do >on coming back from vacation. Is there any equivalent technique with >rn? > >-- >Herb Kanner >Apple Computer, Inc. >{idi,nsc}!apple!kanner >kanner@apple.com In rn type `c' to `c'atch up with all the unread articles in a group. --- Russ ---