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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: suggested enhancement to rn
Message-ID: <1498@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 13:27:59 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1498
Posted: Mon Nov 26 13:27:59 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:41:29 EST
References: <319@qantel.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
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Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

[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.
>
>More direct, huh?  and also more in keeping with the philosophy of rn.
>It would be easy to do at my site, too, because I put in the inews patch
>to generate "Xref" lines, so that the article in the abovementioned 
>example would (and, in fact, does) have a line like:
>
>Xref: mod.newslists:8 net.news:1097
>
>so that the .newsrc file could be changed without reading the history or
>log files or anything.  

Uh, yes--I'd say that's in keeping with the philosophy of rn, considering that
rn already does that.  It looks like your Xref patch to inews isn't
inserting your system name, which causes rn to reject the Xref line as
bogus.  Your Xref line should read:

Xref: qantel mod.newslists:8 net.news:1097

Perhaps you left out or mangled a hunk of the inews patch.

Larry Wall
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