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From: ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: newsgroups fix
Keywords: newsgroups(1) .newsrc sed Unsubscribed active
Message-ID: <1078@rivm05.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 17:09:59 GMT
References: <348@brambo.UUCP>
Organization: RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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Thank you, morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones),
you wrote a magnificent patch for the newsgroups(1) command.

>I don't know how widespread this is (the bug or the fix), but if your
>newsgroups command never seems to produce any output even though you
>know that there are unsubscribed groups, try changing the last four/five
>lines of the newsgroups script to look like this.

echo "Unsubscribed but mentioned in .newsrc:"
sed -n < $dotdir/.newsrc \
	-e "/$1.*!/"'s/^\([^!]*\)!.*$/\1/p' | \
sort | $pager

[ changed: sed  -->  sed -n
[ deleted: -e 'd'
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Adri Verhoef, mcvax!rivm!a3,
National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection.