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From: rock@warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nn,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Sort newsrc file according to nn's presentation sequence
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Date: 17 Dec 90 21:03:34 GMT
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barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett) writes:

>If you use nn and also another newsreader (I use both nn and trn) then
>you may wish for a way of sorting your .newsrc file so that the other
>newsreader uses approximately the same presentation sequence as nn does.
>Here is a script that sorts a .newsrc file into the order specified by a
>.nn/init file.  It works OK with my .newsrc and my .nn/init files; your
>mileage may vary.

I have had the problem (after running nntidy, I think) that running
rn or trn after nn causes rn to complain severely about the way that
.newsrc was left.  Error messages like:

Warning!  Somebody reset news.announce.important--assuming nothing read.
Unread news in news.announce.important    11 articles
Warning!  Somebody reset comp.binaries.mac--assuming nothing read.
Unread news in comp.binaries.mac     1036 articles

and on.  After taking care of this, and cleaning it up for rn,
if I go back to nn, it displays all my newsgroups as NEW.
Any ideas?


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     Bill Petro  {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"  Matthew 19:12