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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Rn -- ..newsrc ??
Message-ID: <4499@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 17:45:54 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.4499
Posted: Mon Mar 25 17:45:54 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Mar-85 01:14:32 EST
References: <969@sjuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

In article <969@sjuvax.UUCP> iannucci@sjuvax.UUCP (iannucci) writes:
>
>         Our rn seems to insist on putting a file called ..newsrc in
>one's $HOME.  Take it out, and rn puts it right back again. It looks
>just like .newsrc.  Who knows what this file is for (if anything) and
>how to get rid of it if it is the result of a bug?

  Do you have a .oldnewsrc file in your home directory?. This is a backup
copy of .newsrc maintained by rn and maybe your news administrator decided to
name it ..newsrc (since the name of the backup file can be set by changing
a #define in common.h).
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    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell