Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!stda.jhuapl.edu!jwm From: jwm@stda.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: can rn kill articles offline? Keywords: rn, kill Message-ID: <3322@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:44:51 GMT References: <542@telesoft.com> Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu Reply-To: jwm@aplvax.UUCP (Jim Meritt) Organization: JHU-Applied Physics Laboratory Lines: 50 In article <542@telesoft.com> garym@telesoft.com (Gary Morris @nova) writes: }I recently learned how to use kill files and in some cases have kill files }that junk all articles then mark just the ones I want to see. The only }problem is that this is quite slow. Is there any way to force rn to process }the kill files, say from a script set to run early in the morning? I use: ........................................................................ /bin/rm /usr/jwm/killed echo "~s rrn KILLed list" > /usr/jwm/killed rnkill -d >> /usr/jwm/killed /usr/ucb/mail jwm@stdc $RNMACRO if test X$1 = X-d; then echo "z" | rn else echo "z" | rn >/dev/null 2>&1 fi rm $RNMACRO exit 0 ......................................................................... Since my kill files not only kills articles, but looks for things that I have deamed interesting (like my name, for instance, in any article) and lists the article number and subject of those articles. While it takes a long time for the process to cycle through, I can read what it mails me in less than a minute. "In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain" - Pliny the Elder These were the opinions of : jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu - or - jwm@aplvax.uucp - or - meritt%aplvm.BITNET