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From: aqm@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Weinrich)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: rn questions
Keywords: rn news
Message-ID: <3207@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 21:00:37 GMT
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bagchi@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi) writes:

>I'm trying to write a script that will dump all the messages that rn would
>normally show me, (i.e. the new ones on the newsgroups that I subscribe
>to) to a file.

  Well, first off, you must realize where your "news" is coming from.
When you invoke rn, or any news reader for that matter, you are 
just watching it "cat" all the news articles that you have not
read. It is very civilized, and very helpful. But, the point here is
that your news is nothing more than a set of files stored in a 
directory on your machine. If you wish to view all the articles 
available, you can actualy change into that directory and view
the files in each group you wish to see. 

  You might run into problems trying to sort out which ones you 
have or haven't read though, so this might not be the solution you
are looking for. Anyone else?

  -Steve

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Steve Weinrich   -    Purdue University    -    Unix Group Support
E-Mail: aqm@cc.purdue.edu