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From: dupuy@douglass.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: News Interface . Help with rn
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Date: 29 Mar 88 22:33:16 GMT
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Reply-To: dupuy@douglass.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy)
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In article <501@zehntel.UUCP> edw@pinot (Ed Wright) writes:
>
>I have not been able to cause rn to duplicate my favorite
>which was
>
>readnews -pn news.group > filename &
>
>anybody know a way to make rn "take a dump in the file of 
>my choice" kind of like readnews used to do ??
>

You should be able to do this using the KILL file capability of rn.  Without
going into details, I would suggest you read the section on kill files in the
voluminous rn man page, and then create a KILL file which saves articles into a
file.  It might look something like this:

KILL file for newsgroup comp.foo:

	THRU 3339
	/^/:s some.file

shell command:

	rn comp.foo < /dev/null &

@alex



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