After you go to a newsgroup you are presented with a menu of articles in
the newsgroup.  Each line contains this information about an article:

 ID  Flag  Author  Lines  Subject

Here's more details about these:

 Field    Details
 ====     ======
 ID       Lower case letter (a-z) or number (0-9); the range depends on 
          screen height
 Flag     read (.), seen on menu but not read (,), left in previous 
          session (=), left this session (+), selected (* or highlighted 
          line)
 Author   Author's full name (or email address if no full name)
 Lines    Number of lines in article (if article has a Lines header)
 Subject  Either the Subject header or if the subject contains only 
          greater than signs (>) or a dash (-), then it has the same 
          subject as the line above. > is a reply, >> is a reply to a 
          reply, etc.; - means same subject as above but not a reply.


Here are some ways to select articles you'd like to read.

 To select (or unselect)...             Type
 ==========================             ====
 single article                         ID
 all articles with current subject      *
 all articles with ID's subject         ID*
 range of articles                      ID1-ID2
 all articles                           =^

The = command means "select any subject that contains" and the caret
(^) means a "beginning of line."  Since every subject contains a
"beginning of line," this selects all subjects.

To unselect all articles that are selected type two tildes: ~~

To move through the pages of the menu use these commands:

 Type         In order to move in the menu...
 ====         ===============================
 SPC or >     Forward page
 <            Back page
 ^            First page
 $            Last page


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