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From: khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
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Subject: Re: Listing only the headers when reading news
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Date: 14 Sep 89 14:51:18 GMT
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In article <11650@boulder.Colorado.EDU> baileyc@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) writes:
>How do I get rn to display only the header of each post/message on
>the net???  Right now, I get the header and however much of each 
>message can fit on my screen.  Thanks.

well, according to the rn man page, the rn option -i=<number> specifies how
many lines to consider as the length of the initial page. if the number of
lines specified is smaller than the number of lines in the header, then the
entire header is displayed and none of the article text.  thus, if you
start rn with -i=1 you will get the desired result. this is normally the
case for low baud rates. so you can either alias rn to 'rn -i=1' or set the
RNINIT environment variable to include "-i=1" in it.  there are many more
possibilities with a program as powerful as rn, so read the manual.

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