From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!idis!mi-cec!rwg
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: problems with NEWSRC variable
Article-I.D.: mi-cec.230
Posted: Sun Feb 20 16:54:06 1983
Received: Thu Feb 24 03:25:56 1983

We run 2.7 news, so sorry if this is obsolete stuff.  I wanted
to put my .newsrc file into a `news' subdirectory, and found out:
  1) the path you set NEWSRC to must be unrooted
  2) `checknews' breaks if your news file isn't in $HOME/.newsrc
both of which are, if only slightly, annoying.
  Rich G. ({floyd,mcnc,decvax}!idis!mi-cec!rwg)
  (Pardon any weirdness in the article; testing a new `postnews')