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From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: suggested enhancement to rn
Message-ID: <321@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 17:49:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 17:49:51 1984
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References: <319@qantel.UUCP> <1498@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
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In article <1498@sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:
>[advice to the newslorn]
>
>In article <319@qantel.UUCP> stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) writes:
>>...I had in mind something like: 
>>
>>when the reader has read this article, change his .newsrc to mark it as
>>read in all groups listed in the "Newsgroups" line.
>
>Perhaps you left out or mangled a hunk of the inews patch.
>

Well, I don't ususally mangle things like this, but I got a virgin
inews.c out of archives, and applied patches inews.c.2.pat and
inews.c.17-c to it, and whatdya know, the two lines that put the system
name in Xref lines showed up on the diffs listing.  I used "patch" this
time, instead of doing it by hand, so I know I didn't miss anything else.

The Xrefs patching looked good to me before, without my system name, 
because I didn't know what they were supposed to look like.  Thanks
again, Larry, you're a wizard!  
-- 

Steve Vance
{dual,nsc,intelca,proper}!qantel!stv
Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA