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Article selection level

In this level rn selects articles from the newsgroup that you are reading in the order in which they have arrived at your site. In this level you are not asked whether you want to read an article and then display it, instead, it displays the first page of the article and at the end of the article it displays the following prompt:

-- End of article 256 ( of 900 ) -- what next? [npq]

At this point you can type any one of the following options:

n
SP
scan forward to the next unread article.
N
go to the next article.
^N
scan forward to the next article with the same subject. (now the search mode will be based on subject rather than article number)
p
scan backward for previous unread article.
-
go to previously displayed article (whether read or unread).
^P
scan backward for the previous article with the same subject.
^X
restart the current article and decrypt as a rot13 (a way of encoding) message.
X
refresh the screen and decrypt as a rot13 message.
q
quit this newsgroup and go back to the newsgroup selection level.
j
junk the current article and mark it as read. (j goes to the end of the article while n goes to the next unread article) number go to the numbered article.
m
mark the current article as still unread. (if you want to read the articles which are interesting at a later time)
k
mark as read all articles with the same subject as the current article.
r
reply through mail. This replies to just the person who posted.
F
submit a follow-up article. (including the lines in the article to which you are replying.
s filename
save the current article to the given filename.
=
List the subjects of unread articles.

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