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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: re-reading articles in rn
Message-ID: <1268@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 89 21:11:00 GMT
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In article <1529.orcenl@orcenl.uucp> news@orcenl.UUCP (News admnr. Bjorn Engsig) writes:
#In article <1256@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" <dww@stl.stc.co.uk> writes:
#>Yes, there are lots of ways to read old articles in rn. ....
#You should add ^N and ^P which are used if you read articles by subject 
#threads.  But there is still (at least) one case where it is not possible.
#In the newgroup selection level or at the first article in a new group,
#there doesn't seem to be any way to show the last article read (in the previous
#group).

Yes, that irritates me sometimes too.
You can read the last actual article in the previous group easily though -
q(uit) from current group, - to go back to last group, answer 'y' to "do you
want to read...", then 99999 will read the last actual article in the group
(ignore the complaint "only 1234 articles" prior to it giving you No. 1234).
Regards,       
        David Wright           STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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