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Annotation of researchv10no/lbin/Mail/manual/cmds/next, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .ip \fBnext\fP
                      2: The
                      3: .b next
                      4: command goes to the next message and types it.  If given a message list,
                      5: .b next
                      6: goes to the first such message and types it.  Thus,
                      7: .(l
                      8: next root
                      9: .)l
                     10: goes to the next message sent by
                     11: .q root
                     12: and types it.  The
                     13: .b next
                     14: command can be abbreviated to simply a newline, which means that one
                     15: can go to and type a message by simply giving its message number or
                     16: one of the magic characters
                     17: .q "\(ua"
                     18: .q "."
                     19: or
                     20: .q "$".
                     21: Thus,
                     22: .(l
                     23: \&.
                     24: .)l
                     25: prints the current message and
                     26: .(l
                     27: 4
                     28: .)l
                     29: prints message 4, as described previously.

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