Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Aliasing newsgroups
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.153020.18167@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep8.003529.24990@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 15:30:20 GMT

In article <1990Sep8.003529.24990@ecst.csuchico.edu> warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes:
> ... How do I alias said groups? ...
>  I'm running the latest version of CNews ...

C News does not do aliasing, partly because of our religious opposition
to header rewriting.

There is an analogous facility which affects where things are stored on
your machine only:  the "=" feature of the fourth active-file field.
See news(5).
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