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From: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: No no... bad and wrong solutions within (Re: Skipping the "More" promt)
Message-ID: <1396@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 24 Aug 89 08:08:14 GMT
References: <1377@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <4841@omepd.UUCP>
Reply-To: swan@jolnet.orpk.il.us (Joel Swan)
Organization: Media Specialties Ltd.
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In article <4841@omepd.UUCP> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
+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.
.
[I describe some methods]
.
+| 1. s or w (save or save w/o header) the posting to a file and use Kermit or cat
+| 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

[more explanation of why they shouldn't work]

+| 4. |cat  or  |/dev/tty  and ascii capture
+Second one is the same thing!!!  Wrong wrong wrong.
+Just another UNIX hacker,
+-- 
+/== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\
+| on contract to Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA                           |
+| merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn	         |
+\== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/
.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that these work-arounds are performed from within
RN.  They work fine when using RN.
(Well, at least they seem to work without a hitch so far.)
Does this make a difference Randal?  Or is it still not kosher?


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