From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!teklabs!keithe Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Title: reading news to a file Article-I.D.: teklabs.1705 Posted: Fri Jan 28 07:39:45 1983 Received: Sat Jan 29 05:08:48 1983 A couple of days ago the following procedure was suggested to read news into a file, for later perusal: 1) Type 'news > file' 2) either hold down the enter button if that will send a bunch of new-line charaters, or keep hitting the return button if you don't have auto-repeat. or 1) make a file 'ret' that consists of about 50 returns (or more if you get a lot of news.) 2) type 'news < ret > file'. 3) type 'more file'. There is an easier way, however. Instead of all the new-lines, just use the "-p" option to readnews; it will dump all the news into the file with "no questions asked" is how the man page puts it. Since our version of news doesn't have the un-subscribe capability I use this method in the following scheme: 1) readnews -p -n [list of news I don't want to read] >/dev/null (this updates my .newsrc file showing that the unwanted news has been read.) 2) readnews -p -n net.all >filename The above is a shell script that is run by at(1); the file is ready for me when I get to work in the morning. I find that just letting the news roll by (using cat) or forward scrolling/skipping (using more) is much faster than replying "y" or "n" to each individual article. And if something really interesting DOES show up (not often, but occasionally it dose happen) I can "vi" the file and pick out the parts I want, which is how I got the copy of the article for the first part of THIS entry. ciao! Keith Ericson