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Selection Mode

The following figure shows a sample selection mode screen. This is what you will see whenever you enter a newsgroup. Note the following information:

• The newsgroup name is in the top left corner: `rec.arts.startrek.current'.
• The number of articles is in the top right corner. There are 111 unread articles in this newsgroup. We have a total of 9243 unread articles in 166 newsgroups.
• Each article has four elements associated with it:
  1. An article id. This is a letter or digit in the left column.
  2. The author of the article.
  3. The number of lines in the article.
  4. The subject of the article. If there are one or more greater than signs (`>') before the subject then that article is a reply to someone's posting. A hyphen (`-') indicates that the subject is identical to the subject of the previous article.

• The bottom line displays some useful information. The 'Top 16%' indicates that there are further pages from which to select articles.

Newsgroup: rec.arts.startrek.current               Articles: 786 of 14/1

a.Kymberlee Ricke  16  >>Spoilers for DS9: "Playing God"
b.Blanche Cohen    13  >>>
c.Sidra Vitale     42  >The Future of Star Trek
d.Jeff Hitchin     16  >Can trills transport?
e.Andre Bratu      25  >>
f.D t Omniscient   18  >
g.Sean Butler      35  >>
h.108swelnis       13  >>>
i.Mike Who         28  >>>>
j.holthausc@urvax  12  Top Ten Guys
k.holthausc@urvax  21  >Marina Sirtis' Opinions on Star Trek
l.acm0200@mtroyal  19  >>>Star Trek V
m.acm0200@mtroyal  36  >>>>>
n.Chem C3 Lab      25  >>>>>
o.KAUFMAN          44  >>>>
p.Dennis Bailey     4  >>>>
q.KAUFMAN          38  >>>>
r.Taki Kogoma      31  >>>>
s.Taki Kogoma      53  >>>>

-- 11:41 -- SELECT -- help:? -----Top 16%-----

In selection mode you select which articles you wish to read by pressing the appropriate article id key. There are several ways to do this:

• If you wish to select a particular article, press the key matching the article id letter.
• If you wish to select an article and all of its replies, first press the article id key for the base posting, and then press * to select all associated replies.
• Use a hyphen to select a range of articles.

Here are some examples:

a*

will select articles `a' through `d'

e-m

will select articles `e' through `m'

o

will select article `o'

q*

will select articles `q' and `r'.

o

pressing o again will cause `o' to be un-selected

You can tell if an article is selected because it will be highlighted.

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