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From: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: MH drawbacks for computer-unexperienced users
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Date: 24 Apr 88 00:51:44 GMT
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In article <336@draken.nada.kth.se> psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg) writes:
}    * The way you read new mail is strange: you must first do "inc",
}      then "show" for the first letter, and "next" for the rest of
}      the letters. Its easy to loose track of which letter you should

I use the following self-modifying alias:

	alias inc "alias n 'show ; alias n next' ; 'inc'"

Then I can just type 'n' each time I want to see the next message (including
the first).

}---
}psv@nada.kth.se			(should work!)		Peter Svanberg
}psv%nada.kth.se@uunet.uu.net	(for lazy nodes...)	Dept of Num An & CS

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