.newsrc cleanup

[John Wilson]

Another method of cleaning up the .newsrc file after a long vnews or readnews
session:

AFTER the session, do a background vnews redirected to /dev/null. This
will update the .newsrc file and (in my experience) do away with all
of the commas, dashes and article.numbers between the first and
last article numbers of a given group.
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I put the following in an executable file called KNEWS

readnews -p > /dev/null &
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I also rearrange my .newsrc file so that all subscribed to groups are
at the `top' of the file followed by all groups not subscribed to.

awk '/options/ {print $0} /^*:/ {print $0} ' .newsrc >subscribe

awk '/^*!/ {print $0}' .newsrc > unscribe

cat unscribe subscribe >> (new).newsrc
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Finally I rearrange (using vi) some of the more important (to me) groups
toward the `top' so that they will be read first with rn or readnews.

This has worked for me at killer.UUCP (The Unix(*) Connection).


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