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From: martya@hp-sdd.hp.com (Marty Albini)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: kill files
Summary: how the heck do I do a "live" file?
Keywords: forgive me, I'm an ignorant ME
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Date: 28 Jul 89 16:40:21 GMT
Expires: 15 Aug 89 04:00:00 GMT
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	I would like to spend less time sifting thru the flames and rubble
while looking for the good stuff. I've tried using KILL files like this:

THRU nnnn
/^/j
/stuff_I_wanna_read/m

which was mentioned in the man page on rn at my site. Unfortunately this 
has the effect of marking everything on subject s_I_w_r as unread, whether
the articles are new or already read. It also takes a long time.

	I guess what I'm looking for is a LIVE file (the inverse of a KILL
file <:^) to junk everything BUT certain subjects. If anyone knows of a way
to do this (standard rn cmds, a macro, shell script, or whatever) I'd love
to hear about it.

	Please post any responses; I'm probably not the only one with this
problem. Thanks in advance!

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