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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Alternate News spool directories
Message-ID: <3419@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 27 Oct 88 23:09:06 GMT
References: <520@xroads.UUCP> <10512@ncc.Nexus.CA> <303@serene.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <303@serene.CTS.COM> rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris) writes:
: I start up rn using the -/ option (which I learned about in TFM, by the way),
: so I have this miniature news spool directory structure arrayed beneath my
: home directory.  My question is:
: 
: Is there any way to direct rn to use this alternate directory tree instead of
: the standard /usr/spool/news ?  Not all the time; just when I want to review
: the articles I've saved.

Not yet.  There is a bit of a design problem in deciding how to assign article
numbers to files that may have alpha names.

: Barring that, is there some other utility designed for the purpose of browsing
: old articles?  (Yes, I know about grep :-)

How about perl?   :-) :-) :-)

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov