Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!bellcore!att!cbnewsh!wcs From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: New Newsgroup Queries Message-ID: <4470@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 20:09:53 GMT References: <3599@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Reply-To: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) Distribution: na Organization: News Busters Lines: 31 In article <3599@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> msc@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (michael.s.cross,sk,) writes: ]This, of course, leaves you with a huge .newsrc file (which can't be edited). ]Our version of 'rn' still marks crossposted articles read, even if the other ]newsgroup is unsubscribed to. (ex: article in rec.music.misc is read. The ]article was crossposted to alt.rock-n-roll, so that number is marked as read. ]Unfortunatly, I unsubscribed to alt.rock-n-roll, but 'rn' doesn't look to see ]if there is a ":" or a "!" on the newsgroup line.) After about a week of ]marking one article here, another article there, the line gets over 512 ]characters long, and our 'vi' editor barfs because of "line too long". Depending on your reading patterns, this may happen to you, but there are several easy workarounds: 1) Use emacs instead of vi :-). 2) Edit your .newsrc more frequently, so the lines don't get too long. 3) Use sed to trim long lines: sed 's/! 1.....*[,-]/! 1-/' .newsrc >.newsrc.new ]Another problem with leaving all the lines in the .newsrc file appears when ]you have a News-server machine and are limited to 300 blocks of storage ... ]one or two KILL files and you're out of room. (This is a local problem) Make sure you don't have a lot of .article.* and letter.* files around using up space (do ls -a to see them.) One problem is that each directory and KILL file uses up at least one block - 500 KILL files would require at least 1000 blocks total space, if you really read that many newsgroups. -- # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs # also found at 201-271-4712 tarpon.att.com!wcs Somerset 4C423 Corp. Park 3 # More Colombians die from American tobacco than Americans from Colombian coke.