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From: bobm@rtech.UUCP (Bob McQueer)
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Subject: Re: vn question
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Date: 1 Jul 88 18:12:30 GMT
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Just made a check to see that the logic is still working as intended - it is.

The options line in the .newsrc is thrown away IF you specified any command
line arguments.  "vn" all by itself reads the options line.

The subscription marks are paid attention to for -n options obtained from
the .newsrc, but not for -n options which came from the command line.

The added -S option may be used on the command line to make it pay
attention to subscription marks.

The intent of all this was to be able to override whatever is in
the .newsrc file through the command line.

I normally run with no options line, and I'm subscribed to "ba.all", except
for ba.test.

I inserted an options line:

options -xn ba.all

vn by itself netted me ba.<everything> everything but ba.test.

vn -n ba.all netted ba.<everything> INCLUDING ba.test.

vn -Sn ba.all netted ba.<everything> except ba.test.