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From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: rn questions
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Date: 27 Sep 89 16:24:56 GMT
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In article  lar@usl-pc.usl.edu (Robert Lane A.) writes:
>In article <378@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bagchi@zippy.eecs.umich.edu
>(Ranjan Bagchi) writes:
>
>>I'm trying to write a script that will dump all the messages that rn would
>>normally show me, (i.e. the new ones on the newsgroups that I subscribe
>>to) to a file.
>
>If you have it, "readnews -p >file" should do exactly what you want.

I do not know how to what Ranjan Bagchi wants, but he should beware of
using readnews.  Quoting from TFM on rn:

   You will therefore want to rearrange your .newsrc file to put the most
   interesting newsgroups first. [how to do it.]   WARNING: invoking
   readnews/vnews (the old user interface) in any way (including as a news
   checker in your login sequence!) will cause your .newsrc to be
   disarranged again.)

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Dick Grady              r_r_grady@att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4