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From: rjk@mgweed.UUCP (Randy King)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Yet another vnews option
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 20:16:08 EST
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In my reference to a "write the newsrc file" option, I have received
a few responses that I'm already familiar with, so I should clarify
my original position further.  I know that vnews -u will update the
newsrc file every 5 minutes, or I could "while true; do vnews; done"
and "q" every so often.  The 5 minutes is fair, at best, because you
can blast through a lot of "n's" in 4:55 seconds, and have something
go wrong at 4:57.  The while loop is hokey, because it presents to
me articles that I have "e'd" for later (much) reading.  What I'd like
is to control the destiny of the writes on my .newsrc, WHENEVER I feel
the karma of a crash impending.  Since "u" is there, I should be able
to hook into that mechanism at will from the keyboard.

						Randy King
						AT&T-CP@MG
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