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Grex Books Item 81: Ashwin
Entered by bulloc on Sat Mar 6 03:28:29 UTC 1999:

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

6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by bulloc on Sat Mar 6 03:31:15 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.

#2 of 6 by darkskyz on Sat Mar 6 14:53:01 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.

#3 of 6 by davel on Sat Mar 6 15:25:28 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".

#4 of 6 by bulloc on Sat Mar 6 23:26:46 1999:

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

#5 of 6 by bulloc on Sat Mar 6 23:27:59 1999:

hull=null...sorry typo.

#6 of 6 by bulloc on Sat Mar 6 23:31:04 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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