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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: journaling news articles...
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Date: 20 Mar 91 04:52:32 GMT
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  I suspect this would be more appropriate in news.announce.newusers, since it
is specifically a news-related question, but what the heck....

  The reason your first attempt failed is that rn flushes typeahead by
default.  Therefore, it saw the initial 'y' command, but then flushed the
three 'q' commands.

  You can get around this by running rn with the "-T" option, which (according
to the rn(1) man page) "allows you to type ahead of rn."  You might also want
to use the "-s" and "-t" options to suppress the initial list of groups
with unread news and to put rn into terse mode.

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