rn incompatible with checknews?

[R.P.A.Collinson]

In article <596 at turtlevax.UUCP> ken at turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) writes:
>It seems that rn is incompatible with checknews in that rn makes
>entries in the .newsrc file that have no article numbers after the
>colon.  Checknews then says that there is news.
>
>Anyone have a bug fix for either checknews or rn?
>-- 


But it says that rn is incompatible in the manual page..............