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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken "Turk" Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: rn and .newsrc
Message-ID: <1206@turtlevax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 15:00:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: turtleva.1206
Posted: Mon Jul 28 15:00:03 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Jul-86 21:37:59 EDT
References: <3694@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Reply-To: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken "Turk" Turkowski)
Organization: CIMLINC, Inc. @ Menlo Park, CA
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Keywords: rn .newsrc
Xref: mnetor net.news.b:340 net.news.adm:614

In article <3694@ut-ngp.UUCP> merworth@ut-ngp.UUCP (Boyd Merworth) writes:
>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!

First, catch up on your news reading, then execute the following
program to fix up your .newsrc.  It will insert a dash between the
first and last numbers, deleting all those in between.  It even
works if you have an options line.
-----------------------------------------------------------------

# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line, then
# unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file".  (Files
# unpacked will be owned by you and have default permissions.)
#
# This archive contains:
# newsrcfix

echo x - newsrcfix
cat > "newsrcfix" << '//E*O*F newsrcfix//'
#!/bin/sh
NRC=${NEWSRC-$HOME/.newsrc}
sed -e 's/\([0-9][0-9]*\)[-,].*[-,]\([0-9][0-9]*\)/\1-\2/' $NRC > $NRC.new
cp $NRC.new $NRC
rm $NRC.new
//E*O*F newsrcfix//

exit 0
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