Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!bbn!bbn.com!cosell 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> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 17 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\