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From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
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Date: 31 Jul 89 16:00:03 GMT
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syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:

>My workaround for this problem is that I wrote a perl script that
>takes the .nn/rc file and updates my .newsrc from that.  I know,
>its a kludge, but it lets arbitron, and our other local managment
>items handle things correctly.

[perl script deleted]

But nn does exactly what your script does if you have the variable
newsrc set in your .nn/init file (or in the global init file).
--
Mark Nagel
UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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