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- red is a simple netnews reading program. If you run red, it
- will prompt you with a line of the following form:
-
- (current-article/last-article) subject (author) ?
-
- If you hit <cr>, you go to the next article, 'n' goes to the next
- newsgroup, 'p' goes to the previous newsgroup, '-' goes to the last
- article seen, '.' views the article, s<file> saves the article, !<cmd>
- executes a command, g<num> goes to an article with a given number in
- the current newsgroup, 'x' exits without updating the red.ini file, 'c'
- marks all articles in the current group as read and goes to the next
- newsgroup, and 'q' exits after updating the red.ini file.
-
- red keeps track of the articles you have seen already in a red.ini file
- in your home directory. Entries in the file are of the form:
-
- comp.sys.vax 123
-
- which means that the 123'rd article in comp.sys.vax is the one to be
- seen by you when you invoke red the next time. You will have to
- construct the red.ini file by hand and will have to make any changes to
- it by hand as well. To get a complete, up-to-date list of newsgroups,
- use the command 'red -n filename'. It will create a file in red.ini
- format. A line oriented editor with regular expressions (like 'ed') is
- most convenient to weed out unwanted newsgroups. Invalid entries in the
- red.ini file are removed or fixed quietly. You can use a different
- file instead of red.ini by setting the REDREC environment variable (the
- path is still relative to your home directory).
-
- While reading an article, every 22 lines (21 lines for the first
- screenful), you are prompted with the string 'more?' to which you can
- answer <cr> to see the next batch of lines, or '.' or 'q' to stop
- viewing this article.
-
-
- Enjoy, Tom.
-
- Flames to /dev/null, mail to tmb@mit-prep.ARPA.
-