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Re: 2 nn questions

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From: Charles Lindsey
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:52
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In <1993Jan19.113941.16862@black.toppoint.de> kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp) writes:

>nn expands the character "%" to the complete path of the
>current article in "!" style shell escapes. "!echo %" tells you
>the complete path to your article 

Well, when I type !echo %, it just flashes the path on the screen for 0.5sec
and then shows me a clear screen with just a ! prompt at the top.

My TERM is sun-cmd, if that is something to do with it.
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References: <1993Jan16.235243.7237@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <9301181608.AA05261@sap-ag.de> <1993Jan19.113941.16862@black.toppoint.de>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!clerew!chl
From: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: 2 nn questions
Message-ID: <C1922u.2Hw@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jan 93 09:52:05 GMT
References: <1993Jan16.235243.7237@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <9301181608.AA05261@sap-ag.de> <1993Jan19.113941.16862@black.toppoint.de>
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