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Subject: Re: Current notes or sequencing vnews or ...?
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 07:59:56 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 07:59:56 1987
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In article <1674@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>In article <403@haddock.UUCP> johnc@haddock.UUCP writes:
>>The one nice thing that people have to say about 'notes' is that it knows
>>how to group responses (followups) with the base note, and lets you sequence
>>through them as a sublist.  The versions we have of 'rn' and 'readnews' and
>>'vnews' don't seem to do this.  
>
>RTFM. It's been a feature of rn since rn came out. It's the -S
>option. For simplicity, set RNINIT to all the rn options you want
>(or to the name of a file which cotains the options).
>
>>Is there perhaps a New, Improved edition of 'rn' that does this?  (Maybe 
>>ours will, but it just isn't documented? :-)  
>
>It's always been documented. The rn documentation is rather long, but
>it's worth reading right through once you've used rn for a while.
>
>David Sherman
>The Law Society of Upper Canada
>Toronto
>-- 
>{ seismo!mnetor  cbosgd!utgpu  watmath  decvax!utcsri  ihnp4!utzoo } !lsuc!dave


 At university of Toronto it seems that replies to rn articles go into a mail
box in the user's directory that can be read by the command "mail" seperate
from all other messages.

 subject:  A new purchase of word processing software

 I putchased ABILITY software by MIGENT.  I find it the most useful of any
software purchase I have made.

James Lundy
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