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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: rrn questions
Message-ID: <925@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 14:26:25 GMT
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1)
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Anyone out there making enhancements or fixes to rrn?  I have two things
that I would love to see, but don't know where to start.

1. when i am in newsgroup selection mode, an l patt is supposed to show
me all newsgroups which match that pattern, broken into read and unread
groups.  What REALLY happens is that I type "l app" and I get this message:

    Completely unsubscribed newsgroups:
    cat: cannot open /usr/lib/news/active: No such file or directory
    [Type return to continue] 
    Unsubscribed but mentioned in .newsrc:

How should newsgroups be modified to process this file?  Note that
I tried making a modification to the program to a) rcp the active file
from my nntp server and b) find the filexp command on my local machine.
The errors go away but I don't get any output either.

2. The bigger problem is that I am looking for some way to modify rrn so that
I dont have to quit leaving the program and starting it back up.  I would
like to be able to have the program running all day and just go and read
in it off and on.  I have no problems with this being as simple as a command
to close off the nntp connection until I perform some other normal rn
function and that triggering a new reopen.  But I have a feeling that there
would be a lot of other things that would get out of sync just 
making this simple change.
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