rn -x 'Is it legal'

[Paul Fritschle]

In <14 at steel.UUCP> shans at steel.UUCP (Shans Basiti) writes:

>I have been trying to read some old news that I had already read,
>so I started the 'rn' as follows:

>        rn -x    or    rn -x <newsgroup>

>However I'm getting the following error message:

>  Ignoring unrecognized switch: -x

>The 'rn' manual and also the 'Using uucp & usenet' book both 
>suggests that this switch is used to read all of the articles in the
>newsgroups even if they have been marked as 'read'. Short of manually
>going thru old news articles via 'grep' or whatever methode I have no
>way of accessing my old news. Could someone let me what I'm doing wrong,
>or am I miss reading the manuals.

Hmm... that switch is valid for 'nn', but I've never seen it used for
rn. I think maybe you misread.
As far as other ways to access old news with rn... good luck! It is
really a pain to do that.

>System: At&t 6386E WGS, rn ver. 4.3.1.4 patch level 40, SCO Unix 3.2v2.0

>Thanks & merry Christmas,
>--- Shans
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>Shans S. Basiti                    |   If I knew eveything,
>Chaparral Steel Company            |   I wouldn't be here.
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