From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.news.b Title: Bad documentation about NEWSRC variable Article-I.D.: alice.648 Posted: Sun Jun 13 11:07:38 1982 Received: Mon Jun 14 00:46:55 1982 The file new.2.7 (from the 2.7 news.tar) says that the value of the variable NEWSRC is checked for a path to the .newsrc file. This implies that a path starting from root (/) is expected, which appears to be incorrect. News seems to prepend the value of NEWSRC to the home directory. Thus, to set it to /usr/xxx/.newsrc (where /usr/xxx is your $HOME), just say NEWSRC=.newsrc export NEWSRC (for sh'ers) or setenv NEWSRC .newsrc (for csh'ers) Adam