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From: timj@maynhbd.UUCP (Tim Jones)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Updating .newsrc and active with latest newsgroups
Keywords: .newsrc B Bnews active newsgroups
Message-ID: <3@maynhbd.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 91 20:12:51 GMT
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Organization: Maynard Electronics, Inc.
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We have just installed xnx143 (Usenet News for SCO Xenix) and noticed that the
/usr/lib/news/active file and the rn generated .newsrc for each user have a
very outdated newsgroups listing.  I've tried to update the newsgroups by 
uucp'ing the latest newsgroups file from UUNET with no luck - we still end
up with 200+ news items in junk each feed (approx).

Does anyone know of a straight forward way to perform this update?  I won't
go so far as to edit the active file as yet for fear of breaking what IS 
working.

To go one step further, any shell gurus (C/B/K) out there have a tip on a way
to get the 'junk' items into there proper locations instead of scrapping them?

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