Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!lwall 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) Distribution: net Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 29 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 {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall