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Article #664Re: G whiz
From: Charles Lindsey
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 11:27
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!chl 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 References: <1658@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <468@texas.dk> Organization: Dept. Of Comp Sci, Univ. of Manchester, UK. Lines: 17