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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: something like motd question
Message-ID: <1991May30.001825.14543@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991May17.154942.18203@logixwi.uucp> <1991May17.230644.15016@unixland.uucp> <1991May26.143729.9487@bilver.uucp>
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 00:18:25 GMT

In article <1991May26.143729.9487@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
> 
>
>Why not   news | more    or   news | less   in their .profile.
>
>This way it is always read, and they don't need to know a thing
>

Does this work on your Esix system Bill?  On mine, when I type 'news',
I see all of the files, regardless of whether or not I've seen them
already.

Of course I can't subject my 1200/2400 baud users to 50 pages of
news (don't know exaclty how many, but there's lots) at every login :-)

-bill
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