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From: werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Subscribing/unsubscribing newsgroups
Summary: here is a script (SS and US) to un/subscribe
Keywords: Help, subscribe, newsgroups
Message-ID: <3317@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 20:20:43 GMT
References: <2176@hou2d.UUCP> <240@sirius.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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I put it in a directory in my path (such as ~/bin), name it SS, link
an alias to it named US, and now have available the commands:

	US talk.nerds		to unsubscribe
and
	SS news.announce	to subscribe

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case `basename "$0"` in
	SS)	C=":";;
	*)	C="!";;
esac
SEDCMD=`echo $* | sed 's#[^ ][^ ]*#-e "/^&[:!]/s/[:!]/$C/w /dev/tty"#g'`
TMP=/tmp/rc$$
trap "rm $TMP" 2
eval "sed $SEDCMD <${NEWSRC=$HOME/.newsrc} >$TMP"
mv $TMP $NEWSRC
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