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Re: G whiz

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From: Charles Lindsey
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 11:27
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storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

>If there are more articles (read or unread) in the group than is
>presently shown on the menu, the G command will give you the menu,
>and you can choose whether you want to include some more articles or
>search for a subject.

>If there are no extra articles in the group, the only choice you would
>have on the menu is to search for a subject, so that is what it
>assumes you are going to do.  So it skips the menu, and goes directly
>to the "enter subject" prompt (the = sign).

BUT maybe the reason I typed the G command was that I just "thought" there
might be some more, older stuff around (I intended to type All next). But I
was wrong, there was nothing above what was already shown. In this situation,
the last thing I want to do is to give a subject. I would rather just see the
complete menu (unchanged, maybe).
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From: chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: G whiz
Keywords: confusion
Message-ID: <830@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Feb 90 11:27:06 GMT
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Organization: Dept. Of Comp Sci, Univ. of Manchester, UK.
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