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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: .newsrc file fixer
Message-ID: <2672@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 06:38:36 GMT
References: <4784@orca.WV.TEK.COM> <8437@boring.cwi.nl>
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel Home of the 32532
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Hdate: 4 Tishrey 5750

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.  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.


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