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This article is from the rec.arts.tv.soaps FAQ, by Margaret D. Gibbs gibbsm@ll.mit.edu with numerous contributions by
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5. vn Information (rec.arts.tv.soaps)
Hi, I am Dorothy. I thought I was the only person who was using VN instead
of RN. Nothing anybody ever said on the NET about using RN made any sense
to me because VN is -different- -- KILL FILES meant nothing to me, at least
how to get them to work. So I read through the pitifully inadequate DOC
that came with the VISUAL NEWS READER (2/1/85) to see if I could find
something that would make reading the news easier and more fun and most of
all FASTER. I found the "marker method" which took a long time to figure
out, but I use it all the time now and it has made VN a pleasure instead
of a pain. I will try to describe it so will make sense to you. It isn't
easy putting things like this into words.
Say you are in rec.arts.tv.soaps with your cursor at the beginning article.
If you are like me, you only care about two or three soaps -- mine are AMC,
OLTL, and GH. I also like to read through the misc. ramblings -- they are
fun, too. Use the small j to run through the group of articles. When you
come to one you want to read, hit the small x. This will put a * beside the
article. Keep doing this until you have everything you want to read marked
with the *. Next step is to press [Ctrl] r -- the program will prompt you
with words like string to search? Type in an * and hit Return. Your VN
reader will only present you with the articles you have selected, one by one
in order. If you make a boo-boo and mark the wrong article simply hit small
x again and it will unmark it. A capital X will unmark all articles. I
suppose you know this already but if you do a small k, it will move the cursor
backwards to an article you may have missed marking the first time. You do
*not* have to unmark to update the entire page. It took me awhile to "get
into the rhythm" of the process, but it is second nature now and gets me
through the reading in a fraction of time it used to take. I hope this works
for you as well. I am sure as hell no computer programmer so I didn't
understand KILL files or any of that stuff, but this works just great for me.
Don't hesitate to E-mail me back. I am sure no expert, but if I can help at
all, I would be glad to hear from you.
Dorothy
| Dorothy (Dot) |
| kenr@zimmer.csufresno.edu |
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