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From: per@erix.UUCP (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: wanted enhancement to vnews programs
Message-ID: <1010@erix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 10:19:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 10:19:07 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Nov-85 07:04:04 EST
References: <2431@sunybcs.UUCP> <882@lsuc.UUCP> <2675@brl-tgr.ARPA> <895@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: per@erix.UUCP (Per Hedeland)
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In article <895@lsuc.UUCP> msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>Now, what you *can't* do is get *part* of the subject line.  *You* can't,
>but *I* can, and that's what fooled dave.  I made some local modifications
>to rn so that I could get field width limits into a %-format, and so that
>I could get %f with the real name first and net address second (I called
>this %w).  My SUBJLINE actually is: "%>-15<15w (%>3[Lines]) %<52[Subject]".

*I* certainly can... Granted that I'm not 100% sure about your definition
of %w, or the interpretation of your syntax for field widths, if you want:

15 chars (left-justified) of 'fullname <address>' (or just 'address' if 
fullname is missing), number of lines right-justified in three positions 
inside (), and first 52 chars of the full subject line, to appear along 
with the article number at the '=' command, just put this in your rninit 
file (I sure don't recommend feeding it to csh :-)):

-ESUBJLINE="\
%(%(%f=(\\(..*\\))$?%1 <%t>:%t)               =^\\(...............\\)?%1) \
(%(   %[lines]=\\(...\\)$?%1)) \
%(%[subject]=^\\(....................................................\\)?\
%1:%[subject])"

Although, as you won't see much of <address> when there is a fullname,
you might just as well take out the ' <%t>'. 

>Oh: %[ takes some time to execute, because the file has to be reread.

No argument there...

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Per "rn doesn't need local mods" Hedeland  
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