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