Re: Is there a way to tell Tin v1.6.2 to only download XX number of posts?

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:39:01PM -0800, Phillip Pi wrote:
> Thank you in advance. :)

[tin(1)]
|       -G article-limit
|                   Limit the number of articles/group to retrieve
|                   from the server.
[...]
|       Number of articles to get (getart_limit)
|           If  getart_limit  is  >  0  not more than getart_limit
|           articles/group  are  fetched  from  the   server.   If
|           getart_limit  is  < 0 tin will start fetching articles
|           from  your  first  unread  minus  absolute  value   of
|           getart_limit. Default is 0, which means no limit.

note that positive numbers might lead to article loss if 'c'atchup is
used.

urs
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