Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!mcvax!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: .newsrc file fixer Message-ID: <8439@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 3 Oct 89 13:09:43 GMT References: <4784@orca.WV.TEK.COM> <8437@boring.cwi.nl> <2672@taux01.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 22 In article <2672@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes: > In article <8437@boring.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: > > cp .newsrc .newsrc.old > > sed -e '/!/d' .newsrc.old >.newsrc > > 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. It > probably checks if there are any groups in the active file that are not > in .newsrc. Since it cannot tell which of these is the new one, it will > ask about each and every one! That means hundreds of questions, and you > cannot go on reading news before answering all of them. But I checked. Rn will only check for new groups if the active file is changed. Next in the file addng.c we find the following comment: /* if not in .newsrc and younger */ /* than the last time we checked */ /* then remember said newsgroup */ So... (This is patchlevel 40.) -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax