Syntax of the "top" command is "top <message_#> <no._of-body_lines>" where number of lines must be > 0.
There's a much friendlier way than telnetting to do household work on a POP account, it's Martin Goebbel's "webspeak interpreter" NETBASic: It interprets commands to all sorts of servers from a script language rather similar to Basic. I wrote a little script which handles all the POP3 commands; helps me much with sorting out offending (long, spammy, malformatted, etc.) mails at the server. BTW, "Netmail for DOS v2.12" does have one known bug, which makes it hang seldom, irregularly but nevertheless from time to time: When a mail item contains a line of exactly 1001 chars. NM gets into a loop then and prints endless (well, untill the "disk full") CR_LFs into the receive file. Occasion is almost exclusively badly formatted M$void "text" without the RFC-"recommended" linebreaks in mail bodies. (Happened about four to five times over the whole last year to me, with a daily intake of between 50 and 150 mails. Author Marc Ressl knows about it and has promised to work on it.) There's one (serious) hitch with NETBAS in that it filters all non- strict-ASCII, i.e. chars below ASC 32 dec and abouve ASC 128 dec. Regrettably this makes it inapt for general mails send/fetch routines with today's (formal) standard of 8-bit transparency of the net. But it's great to use for such repair jobs and the like. And there's another thing to be aware of: the _order_ of mails at a POP3 server may change at every moment, except during the time the client (MTA) is connected (locked). Thus it's not granted that msg_N in a subsequent connection to the server is the same msg_n as in an earlier look-up. // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-02-12 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
