Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!att!cbnews!r4 From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: rn questions Message-ID: <9773@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 16:24:56 GMT References:Reply-To: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr,54354,mv,3a018,508 960 6182) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 In article lar@usl-pc.usl.edu (Robert Lane A.) writes: >In article <378@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bagchi@zippy.eecs.umich.edu >(Ranjan Bagchi) writes: > >>I'm trying to write a script that will dump all the messages that rn would >>normally show me, (i.e. the new ones on the newsgroups that I subscribe >>to) to a file. > >If you have it, "readnews -p >file" should do exactly what you want. I do not know how to what Ranjan Bagchi wants, but he should beware of using readnews. Quoting from TFM on rn: You will therefore want to rearrange your .newsrc file to put the most interesting newsgroups first. [how to do it.] WARNING: invoking readnews/vnews (the old user interface) in any way (including as a news checker in your login sequence!) will cause your .newsrc to be disarranged again.) -- Dick Grady r_r_grady@att.com ...!att!mvuxd!r4