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From: lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: how to DISABLE paging in rn?
Message-ID: <10512@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 25 Oct 88 19:30:24 GMT
References: <520@xroads.UUCP>
Sender: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA
Reply-To: lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In-reply-to: coffin@xroads.UUCP (Chris Coffin)

In article <520@xroads.UUCP>, coffin@xroads (Chris Coffin) writes:
>I have a question about rn that I havent been able to figure out
>so far. Is it possible to completely disable the pager in rn? We
>have several users here that call in on dialup lines and capture
>everything on their PC's to read later. I have put in a switch
>for readnews that sets the PAGER environment variable to 'cat'
>if they so desire. I have not been able to make anything like
>this work with rn, even with the PAGESTOP variable.

RTFM :-)

unix% readnews -p -n NEWSGROUPS

will spit all articles in the selected newsgroup pattern to stdout 
without pausing.
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