Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!daemon From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Newsgroups: uw.unix Subject: Re: Catching up on News Message-ID: <29132@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 13 Sep 89 20:33:15 GMT Sender: daemon@watmath.waterloo.edu Reply-To: sahayman%iuvax.cs.indiana.edu@watmath.waterloo.edu Distribution: uw Lines: 26 From: Steve Hayman If you typed "space" enough times while reading rn, you'd read all the articles and eventually quit (when you hit the **** End--next? [qnp] prompt). So, one thing you could do is arrange to output a continuous stream of spaces and pipe this into rn: % yes ' ' | rn >/dev/null except at MFCF for historical reasons, the "yes" command has been renamed "adnauseam" (hey guys, with all this pathname reorganization, isn't it about time to restore the original "/usr/ucb/yes" command.) Actually I'd probably write a little awk script to load up the active file into an awk associative array, and then filter the .newsrc appropriately, as suggested by dermot's challenge. but I guess I can't enter :-) Shouldn't take any more than, oh ... % decomment ~/bin/catchup | wc 9 21 184 ... nine lines or so. Steve