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From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.unix
Subject: readnews questions
Message-ID: <346@denelcor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 16:11:24 EST
Article-I.D.: denelcor.346
Posted: Tue Mar  6 16:11:24 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 07:29:18 EST
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	A couple of questions/gripes about readnews and associated topics:
	
	1.	Why does "U" (unsubscribe) take so long -- sometimes
		> 25 min (on a moderately loaded pdp-11/44)?
		
	2.	I am trying to split my news reading into two parts --
		"work" and "personal".  To do this, I created a couple
		shell scripts that look like:
		
			cp x .newsrc
			readnews
			cp .newsrc x
		
		The problem is that the second cp USUALLY doesn't work --
		after I exit readnews and get my prompt back, x is
		unchanged.  About one time in ten, x is updated properly.
		I can (and do) always redo the cp by hand and it works
		then.  Can anyone help?
		
			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
				Denelcor, Inc.
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