Ahouxa.104 net.general utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!npois!houxi!houxf!houxa!3383pas Fri Feb 5 08:12:45 1982 Re: Long .newsrc file followup It shouldn't be necessary to use the temporary file with several hundred n's and a q to dump all news into /dev/null. At least according to my documentation for readnews, the -p option prints all selected articles to the standard output with no questions asked. This is perfect for dumping articles to a printer or a null file. Paul Sherman