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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: notes availability/status from HP?
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Date: 18 May 89 18:34:51 GMT
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Reply-To: mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer)
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In article <5570186@hpfcdc.HP.COM> marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc `Play Ball!' Sabatella) writes:
>User interface wise, `rn' leaves a lot to be desired.  Notes and responses
>appear in one continuos stream, rather than as basenote/responses.

There is an option to make it show basenote/responses in sequence. You can
set that up via the RNINIT envariable. I have mine set to:
		setenv RNINIT "-e -m -S -M"

>a "search for next followup" command which gives a crude
>and painfully (and I do mean painfully) slow imitation of the basenote/response
>idea.

Doesn't seem that bad to me. It's running rn on an HP9000s840 here...

The main thing that I like about 'rn' isn't the program itself, but rather,
its format for storing articles, which happens to be in the exact same way
that the MH mail system stores it's messages. That way, I can do nifty
things like:

# hplabsz-2-~> pick +/usr/spool/news/comp/sys/hp -from marc@hpfcdc
# 2055
# 2152
# hplabsz-3-~> scan select
# 2055  05/01 marc@hpfcdc.HP.CO  Re: HP-UX 6.5/X11 problems<<>We just got a 9000/
# 2152  05/16 marc@hpfcdc.HP.CO  Re: notes availability/status from HP?<<>Now, it

I can also use rn's macro facilities to store news articles into an MH mail
folder, which is really good for packrats like myself. With this macro, I
just hit the ` key, followed by the desired folder name, and the article
gets shipped off to the desired folder. To get this, put something like
this in your ~/.rnmac file:
`	%(%m=[ap]?| /usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore +/net/hplnpm/usr/local/mayer/Mail/)

So personally, I prefer 'rn' over notes. If for no other reason than its
usage of a standard, sane, open, unixese file storage format.

-- Niels.