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From: erickson@ics.uci.edu (Gary Erickson)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: .newsrc file fixer
Message-ID: <1989Oct3.170740.9636@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 89 17:07:40 GMT
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dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:

>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

>But I checked.  Rn will only check for new groups if the active file is changed.

I understand that rrn has no way to know whether or not you've already
been asked about a newsgroup.  We've got one news server, and all of
our Sun clients use rrn to get stuff from the server.  I've run into
the same problem.  So, I just add everything and unsubscribe.

Gary
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