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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Save rn-msgs in a file
Message-ID: <801@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 27 Oct 89 18:06:58 GMT
References: <1367@rwthinf.UUCP>
Reply-To: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. -  St. Laurent  P.Q., Canada
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In article <1367@rwthinf.UUCP> pmk@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Keukert) writes:
>I can spent very little time on "my" sun, so I'm looking for a way to
>save all the articles of different newsgroups automatically in a
>file so I can transfer it via FTP to an disk an read it at my own 
>computer at home.
>I use RN to read news. The solution to my problem should save for example
>the messages in comp.lang.pascal in a file named pascal.txt, all the
>new news in comp.periphs.printers in a file named printers.txt, ...

Once in the newsgroup say for example:

100-200:s pascal.txt

This will save articles 100 through 200 appended together to the file
pascal.txt.

For more information, use the h command in rn  (RTFM).
-- 
Ray Dunn.                    | UUCP: ray@philmt.philips.ca
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