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)