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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: How to stop items showing only in screenfuls
Message-ID: <18222@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 23:02:13 GMT
References: <1323@mail.cut.oz>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <1323@mail.cut.oz>, CHILL@mail.cut.oz
 (Ian Hill, Programmer/Analyst) writes:
> Some of our users read NEWS items from their Macintoshes. They would like
> to be able to use the Macs to scroll through the item, rather than have the
> standard one-screen-at-a-time presentation (they have terminal emulators
> which capture stacks of text, which can then be locally scrolled back & forth)
> 
> I tried setting 
> 
> SET DISPLAY/SCANSIZE=9999
> 
> but I still ended up getting 20-odd lines at a time.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas? We are running NEWS v5.8a on VMS 5.0-2

Try doing:

$ SET TERMINAL/PAGE=255

before going into NEWS.  Sorry, but 255 seems to be the maximum you can set
this to.
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