Archive-name: usenet/software/slrn-faq
Posting-Frequency: bi-weekly
Last-Modified: Sept 12, 2000

This is the slrn FAQ.  Send comments, suggestions, or corrections to
davis@space.mit.edu.

slrn is a newsreader that runs under Unix, VMS, OS/2, Win32, and BeOS
operating systems.  The latest version of slrn is available via
anonymous ftp from <ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slrn/>.  It is also
available from:

  ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/misc/slang/
  ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/news/slrn/
  ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/slang/

More information about slrn is available from the slrn home page at
<http://www.slrn.org>.

If you are viewing this FAQ with slrn, press `g' to go from one subject to
the next.

Questions addressed:

0.  Where can I find more information about slrn?
1.  Instead of drawing lines for the thread tree, I see `mq'.  Why?
2.  I do not see a thread tree. Why?
3.  When I mark an article as read, why aren't cross-posts marked as read also?
4.  What is a prefix argument?
5.  How do I re-read articles in a newsgroup that I have already read?
6.  Can I use the mouse with slrn?
7.  How do I use the mouse in an Xterm to cut/paste?
8.  What is the easiest way to uudecode articles?
9.  How do I cross-post an article?
10. How do I find the previously read articles of a thread?
11. Why doesn't the `L' command work as advertised?
12. How can I set my `From' line for my posts?
13. Why doesn't set_author_display work?

Answers:

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Section Contents

• News Headers
• 0. Where can I find more information about slrn?
• 1. Instead of drawing lines for the thread tree, I see `mq'. Why?
• 2. I do not see a thread tree. Why?
• 3. When I mark an article as read, why aren't cross-posts marked as read also?
• 4. What is a prefix argument?
• 5. How do I re-read articles in a newsgroup that I have already read?
• 6. Can I use the mouse with slrn?
• 7. How do I use the mouse in an Xterm to cut/paste?
• 8. What is the easiest way to uudecode articles?
• 9. How do I cross-post an article?
• 10. How do I re-read previously read articles of a thread?
• 11. Why doesn't the `L' command work as advertised?
• 12. How can I set my `From' line for my posts?
• 13. Why doesn't set_author_display work?

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