Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: uw.unix
Subject: Re: Catching up on News (toolsmith's solution)
Message-ID: <12384@looking.on.ca>
Date: 13 Sep 89 00:19:14 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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Actually, you might want to check out our "mknewsrc" program.  It's in
my newsclip directory (~bstempleton/clip) on watmath.  It will create
a .newsrc for you that has every current article unread, but it has a
"p=" option to specify a percentage.

	mknewsrc +n p=100
		- outputs a .newsrc with the same groups as your .newsrc
		  with 100% of articles unread
	mknewsrc +n p=0
		- does what you want, with all article marked read
	mknewsrc +n p=10
		- gives you the last 10% of articles in each group

	Skip the +n and it gives you all groups in the active file.
	Provide patterns and you will only get groups that match the
	regular expressions.

output is to stdout.  Wiht +n it's probably not safe to write to your
.newsrc directly.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473