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

Hi Urs. Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a wayto change the limit on 
the fly I am using Tin? I would hate to restart Tin everytime I want to 
change the limit.
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Urs [iso-8859-1] Janßen wrote:

> 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.