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Aucbvax.5548 fa.digest-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!digest-people Sat Dec 26 13:50:05 1981 RANDOM ACCESS DIGESTS? >From JMTURN@MIT-AI Sat Dec 26 13:39:20 1981 HEY FOLKS, HOW ABOUT A PROGRAM THAT TAKE STANDARD (SFL, POLI-SCI, ETC) FORMATED DIGESTS, AND PRINTS THE HEADER TO EACH INDIVDUAL MESSAGE IN THE DIGEST, THEN ASKS IF THE USER WISHES TO READ THIS LETTER. THIS WOULD NEATLY AVOID THE PROBLEM ASSOCIATED WITH PEOPLE WHO ^R (THAT'S ITS PRINT) THE ARCHIVE FILES, AND WANT TO BE ABLE TO SKIP PARTS OF THE DIGEST, OR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO READ PART OF A DIGEST. THE PROGRAM COULD QUERY FOR A FILE NAME TO FIND THE DIGEST IN. IN FACT, IT COULD ALSO TAKE AN ARGUMENT WHICH IS THE DIGEST TO LOOK AT (FOR MULTI-DIGEST ARCHIVES). IN OTHER WORDS, :DIGEST DUFFEY;SLFVRS ARCHIV MIGHT COME BACK WITH "DIGEST #?" WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF THE DIGEST (SEQUENTIALLY, WITH THE FIRST ONE BEING 1) WHICH THE USER WISHES TO READ. IF ANYONE THINKS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA, I COULD PLOP DOWN A LISP HACK TO DO IT. HOW ABOUT IT? JAMES

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