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From: dhb@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: bursting digests in rn
Message-ID: <1031@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 13:39:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: rayssd.1031
Posted: Thu May 14 13:39:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 09:58:50 EDT
References: <12604@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1029@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Sender: dhb@rayssd.RAY.COM (David H. Brierley @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI)
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Keywords: burst digest news rn

In article <1029@rayssd.RAY.COM> I write:
>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?
>>
>
>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.

It has been pointed out to me that my article was a little confusing,
mostly due to the fact that the rn man page does not mention the backslash
when discussing the PAGESTOP variable.  If you read the section on regular
expressions you will see that alternate patterns are separated by \|
instead of simply |.  For some reason, when rn is reading the entry from
the RNINIT file it requires two backslashes.  Hope this clears up any
confusion.
-- 
	David H. Brierley
	Raytheon Submarine Signal Division
	1847 West Main Road
	Portsmouth, RI 02871

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