Re: A couple of newbie questions

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:56:42PM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> When viewing the article list, how does one scroll left/right to view 
> long subjects?

there is no option for this (you could press '^h' for each art, or use
news_headers_to_display=Subject, but that's page-level only).

> What is the best way to skim through a large binary group, where there  
> might be numerous articles(a.k.a. multiple parts) grouped together.

I'd use multipart threading (via attributes):

scope=*binari*,de.alt.dateien.*
savefile=/tmp/part
mime_types_to_save=*/*,!text/* 
thread_arts=5
thread_perc=85
delete_tmp_files=ON
sort_art_type=0
show_author=0
post_proc_type=2
mime_forward=ON
followup_to=poster

and pass the grouped arts (no matter if all parts are available or not, but
you can check that as well, see below) to uudeview (IIRC the debian version
is linked against libuu) which will automatically combine multipart arts und
check for errors and missing parts. 

with the above attributes I'd use '*' (mark thread hot, if not automatically
done via a filter) and 'S' (save marked arts) in that gorup (or a filter and
'X' 'S').

> In  
> SLRN I usually just hold down the <PageDown> and the display scrolls  
> smoothly enough that I can watch for changes in the subjects as they 
> scroll by.  I tried the same in TIN and the display "flickers" quite a 
> bit to the point it's almost unreadable.

no need to manually look for missing parts, just use 'T', tin then will
check if a part is missing and report that for you.

or simply use a binary grabber.

urs
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