Question about rn KILL file

Jerry Peek jerryp at tektools.TEK.COM
Tue Mar 10 19:25:31 AEST 1987


Normally, when "rn" reads a KILL file for a newsgroup, it's
case-insensitive.  That is, if you ask it to kill articles with "TeX"
in their titles, it also seems to kill articles with "tex", "TEX", and so on.

Well, when I read the "comp.text" newsgroup, I want to kill the
articles about "TeX", but not other articles with words like "text" in
their titles.  I tried the following KILL file, $HOME/.news/comp/text/KILL:
	/:.*TeX.*/:jc
with a "c" to make the search case-sensitive.  The "rn" man page doesn't
mention "c" as a valid command, and it doesn't seem to work:

	$ rn
	Unread news in comp.text                4 articles

	********   4 unread articles in comp.text--read now? [ynq] =

	41    	Junked	???c

	(Interrupted at article 41)

	[Type space to continue]
	   40 Re: vi question (on the message "ERROR")
	   43 Re: TeX in C?
	   44 Re: Mac pictures, S and Bib in Tex Document ??
	What next? [^Nnpq] q

	******** End of newsgroups--what next? [npq] q
	$

Any suggestions?  (We've got rn.c revision 4.3, dated 85/05/01.)  Thanx...

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