.newsrc file fixer
Dik T. Winter
dik at cwi.nl
Tue Oct 3 23:09:43 AEST 1989
In article <2672 at taux01.UUCP> amos at taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
> In article <8437 at boring.cwi.nl> dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
> > cp .newsrc .newsrc.old
> > sed -e '/!/d' .newsrc.old >.newsrc
>
> 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.
But I checked. Rn will only check for new groups if the active file is changed.
Next in the file addng.c we find the following comment:
/* if not in .newsrc and younger */
/* than the last time we checked */
/* then remember said newsgroup */
So... (This is patchlevel 40.)
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