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From: woods@hao.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.software.b
Subject: Re: rn kill file status display efficiency
Message-ID: <1131@hao.ucar.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 88 23:53:08 GMT
References: <5365@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1117@hao.ucar.edu> <683@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <683@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes:
>   It may be a minor slowdown if you're only interested in CPU time, but
>when you take into consideration having to read it at 1200 baud it isn't
>so minor. I personally would like to see an option to let you turn off
>the display of junked articles.

   Your wish is hereby granted. You can turn on "terse" mode at slow baud
rates by using the RNINIT environment variable. Put this line in your .cshrc
file (or a similar line in your .profile if you're a Bourne shell user, or
however the hell you set environment variables in whatever shell you use :-)

setenv RNINIT "+300-2400-t"

This will put you into terse mode automatically for speeds from 300-2400 baud.
If you don't like environment variables just invoke it as "rn -t" when dialed
in at slow speed.  You can also delete display of certain header lines at slow 
speeds, etc. RTFM.

--Greg