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From: baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Argh!  bandwidth excess!
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Date: 27 Oct 89 17:11:10 GMT
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In article <8910251834.AA21154@astro.psu.edu> antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) writes:
>Hi!  A quick clarification-- I really did mean the Unix here doesn't
>have 'man'... i.e. it has no help files to tell me how to avoid problems
>like long mail and odd disconnects.  It's short in other areas too.
>Having 'more' is irrelevant, because I get over 100 pieces of mail a
>day, with maybe 1/4 of that vague enough subject-wise that I give it a
>quick read.  Saving each and every piece so that I can 'more' it would be
>a drag, and i can't set my mail to 'more' letters because there is no
>documentation!  (You try learning unix when you only have the "sun beginner's
>guide"!)
>  So binaries are a hassle.. I thought that was what comp-binaries was for.

If you are using readnews or rn, you can get help by typing "?" and it will
display all you options. Some shortcuts I use to help with some of the
overwhelming bandwith, is using "=" which will display just the titles
of each article. I then quickly go through and write down the numbers of the
articles that look interesting and just look at those. Also, if you use the
"j" command (for junk) while reading an article, it will abort the reading
of the article and mark it as read. Handy for bypassing large articles.
Hopes this helps. :-).


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