Re: To split or not to split

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Nancy McGough (nancym@ii.com)
Fri, 24 Feb 1995 09:18:12 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 24 Feb 1995, Graham Stoney wrote:
> For me, the benefits of being able to find and search all the information in
> a large FAQ as a single file makes me greatly prefer non-split FAQs.

Yes, yes! And then it's much better if the FAQ is in digest format
with each section beginning with one of these pseudo header pairs:

From:
Subject:

or...

Date:
Subject:

And then you can use the wondrous nn to burst the digest (using G%) and
then each digest item is presented on a menu and you can easily select the
ones you're interested in.

I'm curious what other newsreaders are able to burst digests. I know
that [t]rn allows you to jump to the next line beginning with
"Subject:" using ^G, but do any newsreaders, other than nn, allow you
to present the digest items on a menu and read, save, print, etc.
the individual items?

Thanks,

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