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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Huge folders
Message-ID: <15151@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 3 Feb 90 05:41:34 GMT
References: <15147@bfmny0.UU.NET> <7088@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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One other wish list item would make life with huge (and less than
huge) folders easier over slow baud rate connections:

Allow a "+initial_command" switch on the Mush invocation line, and obey
it the command before initial display.  This would be generally useful,
like the "+cmd" feature in 'vi' and 'less'.

Specifically what I would tend to do on slow speed dialup lines
is say

	mush -f mylist +last-msg			# or +$

so that I enter the folder at the BACK rather than having to sit
fidgeting through the entire initial display and THEN switch to
the final screenful of messages.

So if the general +initial_command facility is too hard, it would
at least be great to add a -G switch to jump to the end of the
specified folder before display.


OK smoke em if you got em.  :-)