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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: Getting a detailed list of newsgroups
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Date: 8 Dec 89 13:21:24 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET>
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>I have just been trying to get a detailed list of all the newsgroups here
>(using NEWS 5.8A).  In theory, all I need to do is
>        SHOW ENTRY *
>
>But it always paginates the output, even when news is in NOSCREEN mode.  I did
>not want to sit there typing return after each newsgroup's display, so I
>though that I would do it in a command file, with lots of returns after teh
>SHOW ENTRY command.  But the output consists only of the first 8 (?)
>characters of each line.
>
>Is there a better way?
>
>(Why I want the list is to find any newsgroups that have been made /LOCAL when
>a rmgroup has been received.  I have occasionally forgotten to delete these
>groups and thought it was about time I cleaned them up.)
     
a) run a 5.9 version
     
b) dir/class=$local
     
Geoff Huston