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From: merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help on sys file
Keywords: help on sys
Message-ID: <1991May30.221407.21560@iWarp.intel.com>
Date: 30 May 91 22:14:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: iWarp.1991May30.221407.21560
References: <1991May30.144855.27644@news%jho@iex.com> <1991May30.172132.4493@henson.cc.wwu.edu> <1991May30.201940.19569@iWarp.intel.com> <1991May30.203419.3658@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
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In article <1991May30.203419.3658@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp (Neil Rickert) writes:
| In article <1991May30.201940.19569@iWarp.intel.com> merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
| >question.  Not very likely.  What you want is:
| >
| >send-it-to-barry:misc.jobs.contract/all:f:mail payday!barry
| >
| >See?  Wasn't too hard. :-)
| 
|   I believe that builds a list of article names in the file
| 	"/usr/spool/news/out.going/mail payday!barry".
| 
| I sure hope that was what the original questionner wanted!

Bah.  Have you ever had one of *those* days?  :-)

Right.  What you want is:

	send-it-to-barry:misc.jobs.contract/all::mail payday!barry

copied nearly directly out of my sys file.  (Except for the payday
part. :-)

Just another (red-faced) news admin,
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