Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!gatech!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: basic questions Keywords: articles, newsgroups, foolish questions Message-ID: <43606@bbn.COM> Date: 1 Aug 89 17:18:45 GMT References: <758@soleil.UUCP> <3470@epimass.EPI.COM> <10030@fluke.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 23 In article <10030@fluke.COM> strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes: |I would like to be able to use the 'c' command in rn without marking every |last article as read. Is there a way of marking articles before a specific |point as being read, but retaining the ones after that? The simpleminded approach I use is to say -j where and are the article numbers of the first and last articles I don't want to see. This does take a while if there are lots of articles; "c" is instantaneous. This has another advantage (or disadvantage): articles junked this way are junked in every newsgroup to which they are (cross)posted, so I never will see them. The "c" command does not have this property (it merely updates a single .newsrc line). /JBL (My previous answer to this question should have been cancelled; if I couldn't make that happen, please ignore it.) = UUCP: levin@bbn.com (new) or {backbone}!bbn!levin (old) INTERNET: levin@bbn.com POTS: (617) 873-3463 "The night was"