If you're using trn4 on a technical site, eg comp.unix.solaris, and are saving lots of msgs (to eg News/Comp.unix.solaris), you really need at least the partial (ie local) tree-picture to make sense of the by-definition linearized series of saved posts for a given thread. It'd have the same purpose within that long file that it does interactively while first traversing the tree, seeing the articles for the first time. What'd be nice to have are two comands, one to save the current "partial" tree (from the upper-right part of the screen), and one to save the *full* tree. That way, given appropriate use of those commands, reading the eg News/Comp.unix.soslaris file, reading the (saved parts of the) thread can at least somewhat duplicate the experience of originally looking at the thread via trn. I don't know what others used the ~/News/- files for, but for me they're documentation-for-a-rainy-day, usually stuff that exists in no book or doc *anywhere*. Invaluable stuff! Comments, please? David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace
