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From: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: cn -- a checknews script
Message-ID: <1948@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 13:13:25 EST
Article-I.D.: tektools.1948
Posted: Thu Dec  4 13:13:25 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Dec-86 21:31:45 EST
References: <1549@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Summary: minor bug fix

In article <1549@sunybcs.UUCP> uggworek@sunybcs.UUCP (Don Gworek) writes:
> Here's a cute little shell script that lists available news
> articles in multicolumn form, such as:
> 
> [31] comp.lang.c        [ 1] wny.yumyum         [ 2] mod.sources        
> [ 4] comp.unix.questio  [ 1] comp.unix.wizards  [ 1] mod.computers.sun  
> [ 2] mod.computers.wor  

A useful script -- lets you use "rn -c" and avoid all the verbosity.
Unfortunately, if a newsgroup has more than 99 unread articles, "cn"
just prints the first two digits of the number.  At the expense of 3 more
characters on each line, you can fix the problem by changing this:

> 			printf "[%2.2s] %-17.17s  ", $5, $4; \

to read:
 			printf "[%3.3s] %-17.17s  ", $5, $4; \

[No, I *won't* post a "patch" file for a nine-line program! :-)]

--Jerry Peek, Tektronix, Inc.
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