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From: rfarris@serene.CTS.COM (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Alternate News spool directories
Summary: How the heck do I access them?
Message-ID: <303@serene.CTS.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 88 02:19:02 GMT
References: <520@xroads.UUCP> <10512@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Reply-To: rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris)
Organization: Serenity Systems,  Del Mar, Ca.
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In article <520@xroads.UUCP>, coffin@xroads (Chris Coffin) writes:
`I have a question about rn that I havent been able to figure out
`so far.

Me too.  (I'm not so sure this is the proper newsgroup for this, but there
seems to be some precedent...)

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.

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

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