Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!logicon.arpa!oliveb!pyramid!nsc!taux01!amos 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 Lines: 20 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. -- Amos Shapir amos@taux01.nsc.com or amos@nsc.nsc.com National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel Tel. +972 52 522261 TWX: 33691, fax: +972-52-558322 34 48 E / 32 10 N (My other cpu is a NS32532)