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From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I limit display to headers?
Summary: Use the -i=<number> option switch
Message-ID: <9554@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 89 22:06:03 GMT
References: <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr,54354,mv,3a018,508 960 6182)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> leo@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (leonard.oppenheimer,hr,) writes:
> [...]
>When using rn, I would like to be able to display the header only, and then
>hit <space> if I want to read the article.  The way it is now, I always get
>the whole first page, which is a pain on this machine as it is very slow.

The option -i controls how many lines of the article to print initially.
The syntax is
       -i=<number>
where <number> is the number of lines you want.
I use -i=1 .
(I could not get -i=0 to work on my machine.)

The easiest way to set this (as well as any other options you want to
be set always) is to put it into the RNINIT environment variable.
Put this into your .profile file:
        export RNINIT
        RNINIT='-i=0'

You might also want to reduce the number of header lines printed. 
You control this with "-h<header>" and "+h<header>". (-h suppresses the
designated header line.)   My RNINIT is:
        RNINIT='-e -i=1 -m=u -M -S1 -h +hdate +hfrom +hkeywords +hlines
        +horganization +hsender +hsummary +hsubject'
  (This should be all one line. I have split it into 2 lines here because
   some terminals have trouble with long lines.)
The "-h" turns off all headers, and the "+h..." fields turn on the
headers I want.

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Dick Grady              r_r_grady@att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4