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From: lda@clyde.UUCP (Larry D. Auton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: undocumented feature for saving netnews
Message-ID: <155@clyde.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 17:01:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 17:01:19 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Sep-83 05:51:14 EDT
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	Note that netnews will not create the directory for you.  If the save
	fails, you can do a !mkdir and try again.  For starters, it's useful
	to get a list of all active newsgroups and do a mkdir `cat
	activelist`.  You can make activelist by stripping the article numbers
	out of /usr/lib/news/active.  Note that the hierarchy is like old
	style news, the net.cooks articles will go into net.cooks/souffle, not
	net/cooks/souffle.

If you don't read all the newsgroups, you can save a bit of room by
using only the groups in your .newsrc that are followed by ':',  rather
than using /usr/lib/news/active, for "starters".  This could save you
lots of empty (as well as unused) directories.

P.S.	THANKS ANDY!!!

Larry Auton  WECo BTL-WH (201)386-4272