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From: palmerp@argus.math.orst.edu (Paul A. Palmer)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: wanted: another macro for 'rn'
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Date: 11 Feb 90 00:45:00 GMT
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I rean news on a SUN running Berkley 4.3 UNIX, with the newsreader 'rn'.

I read groups by following subject threads with the ^N option (In fact, I load
rn as 'rn -S' which automatically puts me in ^N mode).
The problem is, sometimes the threads are LONG. What I'd like to do is to be
able to determine in advance how long a thread is. With my limited (but slowly
growing!!) knowledge of macros, I can't find a way to do this.
Anyone have any ideas on how to construct such a macro? (I realize I could use
'=' and count them myself, but this is an inelegant solution.)

Thanks for any ideas.
Paul Palmer
Department of Mathematics     	E-mail: palmerp@math.orst.edu
Kidder Hall 368
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4605