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mi-cec.230 Posted: Sun Feb 20 16:54:06 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 03:25:56 1983 We run 2.7 news, so sorry if this is obsolete stuff.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')