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Started by sahayman
Wed, 13 Sep 1989 20:33
Re: Catching up on News
Author: sahayman
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1989 20:33
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1989 20:33
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From: Steve Hayman <sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
If you typed "space" enough times while reading rn, you'd read all the
articles and eventually quit (when you hit the **** End--next? [qnp] prompt).
So, one thing you could do is arrange to output a continuous stream
of spaces and pipe this into rn:
% yes ' ' | rn >/dev/null
except at MFCF for historical reasons, the "yes" command has been
renamed "adnauseam" (hey guys, with all this pathname reorganization,
isn't it about time to restore the original "/usr/ucb/yes" command.)
Actually I'd probably write a little awk script to load up the active
file into an awk associative array, and then filter the .newsrc
appropriately, as suggested by dermot's challenge. but I guess I can't
enter :-) Shouldn't take any more than, oh ...
% decomment ~/bin/catchup | wc
9 21 184
... nine lines or so.
Steve
Re: Catching up on News
Author: Ray Butterworth
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 15:06
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 15:06
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In article <29132@watmath.waterloo.edu>, sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes: > ... > except at MFCF for historical reasons, the "yes" command has been > renamed "adnauseam" (hey guys, with all this pathname reorganization, > isn't it about time to restore the original "/usr/ucb/yes" command.) Don't forget what those historical reasons were. People running interactive programs that prompt for yes or no answers will often use type-ahead when the system is slow and they know what the next question is going to be. Any mistake in this can leave a "yes" waiting to execute, and when it does an infinite stream of "y"s, one per line, is printed. This is really fun on a hard-copy console when the operator returns a few minutes later and has to replace the box of paper that was just chewed up. Perhaps a better change would have been to make "yes" not work if output is to a tty?
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