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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: No no... bad and wrong solutions within (Re: Skipping the "More" promt)
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Date: 23 Aug 89 18:57:37 GMT
References: <1377@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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In-reply-to: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan)

In article <1377@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>, swan@jolnet (Joel Swan) writes:
| Thanks to all of those (at least 10) who reponded by mail and posting.
| Here is a quick look at the ideas given.
| 
| 1. s or w (save or save w/o header) the posting to a file and use Kermit or cat
|    to the screen
| 
| 2. s /dev/tty  or w /dev/tty  and ascii capture
| 
| 3. s|/dev/tty  or w|/dev/tty  and ascii capture

Wrong wrong wrong.  You are attemping then to execute commands typed
in from the terminal.  Essentially, you have said "run the shell
script located at /dev/tty" ... which is the name for your terminal.
The shell processing the "|" command will start reading commands from
your terminal and executing them one by one, with the news article as
standard-input!

| 4. |cat  or  |/dev/tty  and ascii capture

Second one is the same thing!!!  Wrong wrong wrong.

| So far I've used method 1 for longer postings and file (with Kermit) and
| method 4 and ascii caprutre for short uudecoded postings.
| 
| Again, thanks for each and every person who replied.
| (Hey, this group did a good job.  Congrats.  Some music amongst the noise :-)

Just be careful and practice "safe computing"... you don't know where
those answers came from. :-)

Just another UNIX hacker,
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