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From: dhb@rayssd.RAY.COM (David Brierley)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: bursting digests in rn
Message-ID: <1029@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 20:56:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: rayssd.1029
Posted: Wed May 13 20:56:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 07:14:14 EDT
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Sender: dhb@rayssd.RAY.COM (David H. Brierley @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI)
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Keywords: burst digest news rn

I started to reply to this as private mail but then decided that
others might not be aware of these features (I know I wasn't aware
of them until earlier today and I am a fairly regular user of rn).

In article <12604@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw) writes:
>Pardon my ignorance, but does rn provide a way to burst news digests, nad
>if so, how is it done?
>

Your question arrived here at exactly the right moment to solicit a
response.  Just this morning I was reading a digest and said to myself
"I wonder if rn can be convinced to process this digest in a reasonable manner?".
After going through the man page several times I came up with the following
items:

1. Use the control-G command to search for the next subject line in the
digest.

2. If you have an RNINIT file, add the following line:
-EPAGESTOP='^-- $\\|^--------'

3. If you dont have an RNINIT file, define the PAGESTOP variable in your
environment but with only one backslash.

The effect of the PAGESTOP is to stop at the dashed line that separates the
entries in the digest.
-- 
	David H. Brierley
	Raytheon Submarine Signal Division
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	Portsmouth, RI 02871

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