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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: re: destructive N command
Message-ID: <348@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 09:57:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 12 09:57:34 1983
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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it would be nice, wouldn't it?  i'm not holding my breath, though, so i wrote
a quickie kludge to update my .newsrc file to a specified article number.
when i see i'm on article 401 of 899, i quit readnews & do my shell script

       nomore <newsgroup> 899

source is pretty simple:

       echo "all articles up to $2 to be ignored from newsgroup $1"
       ( echo "/$1/s/[:!].*/: 1-$2/"; echo "w
q" ) | ed - $HOME/.newsrc

well, it beats hitting 498 n's.

ken perlow
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