Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:11089 news.newusers.questions:3486 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: hacking through c.b.i.p Keywords: rn kill Message-ID: <2565@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 90 03:38:42 GMT References: <1990Dec5.215326.6095@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1990Dec10.085535.3890@rice.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 20 In article <1990Dec10.085535.3890@rice.edu> glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt) writes: | In reading comp.binaries.ibm.pc, I occasionally stumble upon a series of | chunks of a piece of software I don't want: is there any way to issue a kill | command that will mark all of the chunks as read? there's just enough | variation in the subject lines so that they don't match. I clipped a sample | from c.b.i.p: | | Subject: v09i005: zipcode data for the USA in .dbf format (part 01/10) | Subject: v09i006: zipcode data for the USA in .dbf format (part 02/10) | Subject: v09i007: zipcode data for the USA in .dbf format (part 03/10) If you use rn: /zipcode data/:j if not, consider that this question belongs in the news questions group ;-) -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me