From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxi!deimos!orion!lime!we13!we53!glm Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: small gripe Article-I.D.: we53.155 Posted: Thu Sep 2 21:49:03 1982 Received: Sun Sep 5 03:37:45 1982 References: iheds.154 burdvax.134 In reply to the questions about why news is always saved in the home directory: I am on a system running 2.9(I believe) news, and don't understand the problem. I have a subdirectory under my login(home) directory called news. I use the s option of readnews to save articles there. I even have subdirectories under news that I use to save articles in certain news groups. To do this I have set the variable 'NEWSBOX=/..../glm/news' in my .profile. To save an article in that directory I respond 's filename' and the file is created as '/..../glm/news/filename'. To save in a subdirectory (that I have already created) I respond 's group/filename' and the file is created as '/..../glm/news/group/filename'. To save a file in another directory in the system I respond 's /fullpath/filename' and the file is created as '/fullpath/filename'. Do I not understand the full extent of the problem? Does the use of a directory in the variable NEWSBOX solve the problem? Gary Mann (we53!glm)