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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: .newsrc file fixer
Message-ID: <46356@bbn.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 89 12:19:17 GMT
References: <4784@orca.WV.TEK.COM> <8437@boring.cwi.nl> <2672@taux01.UUCP>
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Reply-To: cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell)
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In article <2672@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
}In article <8437@boring.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
}>There is however a much easier
}>procedure to get at (nearly) the same result:
}>	cp .newsrc .newsrc.old
}>	sed -e '/!/d' .newsrc.old >.newsrc
}>This will throw away all lines mentioning groups you are not subscribed to
}
}The point of keeping unsubscribed groups in .newsrc is that whenever a
}new group is created, rn will ask you if you want to add it.  


This isn't true (here at BBN, at least): in fact, rn only asks you about
adding really-new newsgroups.  I regularly delete the !ed groups from my
.newsrc and it works just fine.

  /Bernie\