Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!skid.ps.uci.edu!pfritsch From: pfritsch@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: rn -x 'Is it legal' Keywords: news old Message-ID: Date: 25 Dec 90 00:02:08 GMT References: <14@steel.UUCP> Distribution: usa Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: skid.ps.uci.edu In <14@steel.UUCP> shans@steel.UUCP (Shans Basiti) writes: >I have been trying to read some old news that I had already read, >so I started the 'rn' as follows: > rn -x or rn -x >However I'm getting the following error message: > Ignoring unrecognized switch: -x >The 'rn' manual and also the 'Using uucp & usenet' book both >suggests that this switch is used to read all of the articles in the >newsgroups even if they have been marked as 'read'. Short of manually >going thru old news articles via 'grep' or whatever methode I have no >way of accessing my old news. Could someone let me what I'm doing wrong, >or am I miss reading the manuals. Hmm... that switch is valid for 'nn', but I've never seen it used for rn. I think maybe you misread. As far as other ways to access old news with rn... good luck! It is really a pain to do that. >System: At&t 6386E WGS, rn ver. 4.3.1.4 patch level 40, SCO Unix 3.2v2.0 >Thanks & merry Christmas, >--- Shans >-- >========================================================================== >Shans S. Basiti | If I knew eveything, >Chaparral Steel Company | I wouldn't be here. >UUCP: ...!uunet!steel!shans | -- ----- Paul Fritschle pfritsch@skid.PS.UCI.EDU 'That is not dead which can eternal lie/ And with strange eons even death may die' - Al Hazred 'The Necronomicon'