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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Rebuild a .newsrc file
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.154607.4767@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 4 Oct 90 15:46:07 GMT
References: <2713@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Oct3.014039.27275@cbnews.att.com>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <1990Oct3.014039.27275@cbnews.att.com> lvc@cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
>In article <2713@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>>   Someone asked about rebuilding a .newsrc file.
>Here's a pretty quick one in awk.
> [ solution deleted ]

or
sed -e 's/ .*/:/' /usr/lib/news/active > $HOME/.newsrc

Dylan.
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