Sometimes I'm in a really large newsgroup, eg alt.home.repair, and remember from a few days earlier a thread about walking-machines, treadmills, jogging-machines; some name *like* those were in the subject-line (er, thread-title). Now, this group, its threads, with only one like showing per thread (via "L"-cmd), on my 60 some-odd lines high screen, takes FIFTY TRN SCREEN PAGES to get from top to bottom. Now, what I'd *like* (eg, *need*) to do, in order to see if this thread is still there, unexpired, is to GREP the entire list. (For eg this word, that word, some other word, plus some wild-assed guesses) (No, I don't want to use trn's "/"-search, because I've *already* marked a (whole) bunch of items; nor do I want some extremely abstruse set of existing commands so that I *can* use "/".) What would be *best* for me would be to simply get the entire list, all 50 pages worth, of whatever items are currently on screen, same format -- written out to a *file*. It's the ages-old unix-idea: there's all these little tools out there, most designed for handling text-files, and once the data is in an ascii file, I'm then *free* to use those tools, to do whatever I want with them. Seems like the code already has a loop to draw the screen, probably just a printf wrapped in a loop. Wouldn't it be almost *trivial* to duplicate that loop, change the from-to limits to 0-(aryLen-1), and have the printf write to standard out? Please, somone trn-hacker, do it. Such a huge user-benefit from such a small effort! Thanks, David ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp
