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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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