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From: harelb@arthur.uchicago.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: several questions
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Date: 13 Oct 89 22:05:32 GMT
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I've been mentally collecting questions to ask for a while now, so
here goes with three:

(1)General unix question: when I'm in "mail" and hit return to read an
article, it doesn't "more" it for me, so big letters/files just scroll
off the screen (I realize there's control-s and control-q, but I'd
rather not have to use them all the time (and you need a quick hand));
is there a way of making my "mail" smart enough to do this?

(2)How does one use the "Message-ID" to access old articles (I assume
that's basically what it's there for) instead of using "article
number"?

(3)In one of the newsgroups I read, there's often a series of articles
I don't want to read and I know exactly how many articles I want to
skip (i.e., and have them be considered as read); how do I do this
(instead of typing "n" to each one which can take 2 seconds each time)
[the newsgroup is misc.headlines.unitex, and I'll often find something
like "subject:UN session on...(part 1 of 11)"]

Right now I'm using "rn", if that's relevant to answering (2) and (3)
[although I'm now going to look into "vn" and/or "nn" given all the
praise they've been receiving here]

Thanks for your help, and please email a copy directly to me when you
post the answers.

-HB
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense
that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!" -A.E.