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From: ambar@ora.UUCP (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: readnews skips news groups
Keywords: netnews 2.11, sysman puzzled
Message-ID: <164@ora.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 01:38:47 GMT
References: <491@ctycal.UUCP>
Reply-To: ambar@ora.ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz)
Organization: O'Reilly and Associates, Cambridge, MA
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In article <491@ctycal.UUCP> ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby) writes:

>My problem is with readnews.  Normally, invoking `readnews' should
>cause all the newsgroups that are enabled in the user's .newsrc file
>to be read.  My readnews does not do this.  It processes only the
>groups specified in the mandatory subscription list ADMSUB.  (At
>least I think that is what it is doing).  What is it that I don't
>understand?  Doing a    readnews -n comp     or whatever does work.

Actually, as readnews (vnews too) is implemented in B News 2.11, you
must call it with the -n all switch for it to read all the
newsgroups enabled in .newsrc.

I really dislike this behavior.  Last I checked, it has been changed
in B News 3.0 (TMNN).

				AMBAR
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