Subject: Re: marking headers read in Usenet

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:33:38 -0500

On 4 Dec 1996, Housen Maratouk wrote:

> I recently began using pine as a newsreader. In the past, I have always
> used 'nn' and when I wanted to mark all headers in a group read, I would just
> hold <shift>-X. Is there any equivalent to that command in pine or are we
> expected to individually 'delete' each header?

    From the Main Menu, go into your personal configuration and make
sure you have aggregate commands enabled.  Then, when viewing the index
listing for a newsgroup, just enter the sequence  ;aad
This will mark all messages as read.  If you want the messages to
disappear from the display ("expunged"), add an  x  at the end of that
sequence.  (Depending on your hookup, you may have to enter the four or
five characters one at a time.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
----------------------------------------------------------
Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA
Finger, keyserver, or WWW for PGP 2.6.2 public key 
Home Page:  http://www.access.digex.net/~pobart

---

From: [email-masked] (Vikas Agnihotri)
Date: 4 Dec 1996 21:09:08 GMT

On 4 Dec 1996 15:36:51 -0500, Housen Maratouk <[email-masked]> wrote:
[<-->] I recently began using pine as a newsreader. In the past, I have always
[<-->] used 'nn' and when I wanted to mark all headers in a group read, I would just
[<-->] hold <shift>-X. Is there any equivalent to that command in pine or are we
[<-->] expected to individually 'delete' each header?

Enable the 'enable-aggregate-command-set' feature in Pine.
Use 
 ;AAD

[
; = Select command
A = All articles
A = Apply comand
D = Mark deleted
]

to mark all the articles are read.

--Vikas

---

From: [email-masked] (Housen Maratouk)
Date: 4 Dec 1996 15:36:51 -0500

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Housen Maratouk                            Rutgers University- Newark Campus 
[email-masked]               English Dept. 614 Hill Hall