Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site qantel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!qantel!stv From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Checkgroups message Message-ID: <322@qantel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 20:19:31 EST Article-I.D.: qantel.322 Posted: Wed Dec 5 20:19:31 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 01:49:59 EST References: <11071@gatech.UUCP> Reply-To: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA Lines: 23 In article <11071@gatech.UUCP> usenet@gatech.UUCP writes: >"checkgroups" message), site administrators will have to run the >message by hand. What follows is a shell script to run such a message >at your site. If your "inews" program does not reside in >/usr/lib/news/inews, change the variable declaration given below, or >else enter the pathname at the prompt. > >Gene Spafford >1 December 1984 >--------------- cut here and run the rest through "sh" --------------- It seems to me that if you put colons ":" at the front of all the introductory lines like those above, I could just say "w|sh" to my "rn" prompt and be done with it, and not have to: save the file to /tmp/something, edit it to remove the stuff before the "cut here" line, and "!Gsh" the result. How about it, shar posters? Or am I missing the easy way already? -- Steve Vance {dual,nsc,intelca,proper}!qantel!stv Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA