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From: avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: newsgroup exclusion in expire
Message-ID: <821@decuac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 13:57:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 13:57:50 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Feb-86 06:21:48 EST
References: <131@csee-vax.unlv.UUCP>
Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD
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In article <131@csee-vax.unlv.UUCP>, greg@unlv.UUCP writes:
> 
> I recently modified expire.c to allow for the -o option which is the same
> as the -n option except that it excludes the named groups from those expired

You can use a ! in front of a news group such as

/usr/lib/news/expire -v -e7 -n all,!uig.meetings,!uig.notes 2>&1
-- 
Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center
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