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Subject: Re: re: destructive N command
Message-ID: <3109@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Oct-83 16:49:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 14 16:49:10 1983
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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Instead of writing a program to update your .newsrc to the last number
of a newsgroup, you can always do:

	readnews -p -n <newsgroup> >& /dev/null &

which will totally clear a newsgroup.  But I still think that it should
be do-able from within 'readnews'.
-- 

~~~ Bruce ~~~
Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland
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