Grex Books Conference Item 81

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Ashwin

Mar 6 03:28 UTC 1999

Can you guys help me how to read the  latest item rather than going all
responses from 1994..

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bulloc

response 1 of 6:

Mar 6 03:31 UTC 1999

and what exactly is the motive of these conferences..as i'm new to this..i
just can't understand what could be the purpose of these things.
well..see ya next time.

darkskyz

response 2 of 6:

Mar 6 14:53 UTC 1999

re #0: either use browse or read new.
re #1: each conference has it's own motive, this one for example is to discuss
books. read help conf for more info.

davel

response 3 of 6:

Mar 6 15:25 UTC 1999

Once you've read up to date, just "read" will read only new postings.  (If
you don't specify an item number, "read" does "read new".  If you specify an
item #, you also need to specify "new".)

However, first you need to get everything marked as read.  There's a command
(fixseen) that marks items but not responses as read, so it doesn't do quite
what you want.  My workaround is "read all pass >/dev/null".  After you've
done this, which will take a couple of minutes, you can then select a date
and read all since that date.  Say, if you wanted things posted this year,
just do "read since 1/1".  After that, you can keep up with "read".

bulloc

response 4 of 6:

Mar 6 23:26 UTC 1999

where should i use the fixseen command and what exactly is "read all pass
>/dev/hull"..

bulloc

response 5 of 6:

Mar 6 23:27 UTC 1999

hull=null...sorry typo.

bulloc

response 6 of 6:

Mar 6 23:31 UTC 1999

Friendship is unnecessary like art, philosophy...it doesn't have a survival
value, rather it is one of those things which adds value to Survival.
;-)

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