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From: merworth@ut-ngp.UUCP (Boyd Merworth)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.news.adm
Subject: rn and .newsrc
Message-ID: <3694@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 12:47:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.3694
Posted: Thu Jul 24 12:47:19 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Jul-86 21:39:43 EDT
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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I have "rn" installed on a VAX 11/780 running 4.2BSD and
bnews 2.10.3 (January 1986 version).  There seems to be a
problem with the way rn updates the .newsrc file.  If this
have been discussed before, please excuse me.  If a fix
has been posted, I would appreciate having someone mail
it to me or repost it to the net.

If I have a group marked in my .newsrc file to which I
do not subscribe, why does rn keep appending article numbers
to that entry if the article has been cross-posted to a group
to which I subscribe?  Eventually, if readnews is invoked on
login, I get an error message, ".newsrc line too long".  The
line is even too long for vi to handle!

Thanks for any pointers.
-- 
Boyd Merworth
The University of Texas at Austin, Computation Center,   Austin, TX 78712
merworth@ngp.cc.utexas.edu 	 {ihnp4,allegra,ut-sally}!ut-ngp!merworth
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