Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!eecae!abaa!esker From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Re: editing .newsrc Summary: Why? Easier ways to do things. Message-ID: <956@neptune.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 18:15:41 GMT References: <354@wet.UUCP> <2354@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <1736@frog.UUCP> Reply-To: esker@neptune.UUCP (Lawrence Esker) Organization: Allen Bradley Lines: 28 In article <1736@frog.UUCP> jp@frog.UUCP (John Pimentel) writes: >From personal experience I concur with the second writer. I've been able to >rearrange the entire .newsrc file (I like the categories in alphabetical >order). Occasionally, I remember reading a particular article and need to >reread it, but don't know what the article number was, in this regard I >re-edit that newsgroup to have no numbers, or 1-1, or 1... Why bother editing .newsrc to do this? A simpiler way to get back all old messages while in a newsgroup is to type '1-$m'. This marks every message from the begining to the end as unread. Personally, I only use sort on .newsrc to alphabatize the news groups. Very seldom, I have edited to look for the name of an old newgroup that I unsuscribed to, then change the ! to a : to resuscribe. (Only when I could not remember the exact name of the newsgroup.) Other than this, everything else I've ever done can be done in rn. -- ---------- Lawrence W. Esker ---------- Modern Amish: Thou shalt not need any \ * * * ******* / computer that is not IBM compatible. \ * * * * * / \ * * * * * ***** / Sr. Hardware/ASIC Design Engineer \ * * * * * * / Allen-Bradley Communications Div. \ ******* * * ******* / Work: (313)668-2500 Home: (313)973-8561 ----------------------------- Compuserve: 76337,2524 UseNet Smart: esker@abaa.uucp or abaa!esker@itivax.iti.org UseNet Other: __!uunet!mimsy!rutgers!citi!itivax!abaa!esker Nothing left to do but :-) ;-) ;-D