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Re: select earlier articles in reading mode?

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From: Giles Lean
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 03:42
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tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle Moore) writes:

>In <1993Jan6.081619.25496@lth.se> kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) writes:

>>When you are reading the response, type "G<RET><RET><RET>"...

>Which I use all the time and is absolutely wonderful, but do keep in
>mind that if the article has expired, this still won't bring it up.
>Nothing you can do about that, just don't be surprised if the original
>article doesn't show up, but a number of responses to it do.

Fortunately for me the expire problem isn't serious.  Three (human)
newsreaders, no downstream sites and lots of disk ... :-)

Also offered by Thomas Aaron Insel <tinsel@uiuc.edu>

	map show B (
		goto-group " " "s"
		'*' 'Z'
		)

... which doesn't bring up a new menu but drops you straight into
the articles.

Thanks to all,

Giles
-- 
Giles Lean at Pro Medicus	<giles@promed.com.au>
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Subject: Re: select earlier articles in reading mode?
Organization: Pro Medicus, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 03:42:42 GMT
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