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From: amos@nsc.nsc.com (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Long lines in .newsrc
Message-ID: <13612@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 17 Feb 90 00:49:25 GMT
References: <1990Feb16.224024.18225@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
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X-Hdate: 21 Shvat 5750

There's no patch to rn, but it can be easily fixed by a small command
file which was posted here a few months ago:
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#!/bin/sh
# Usage: shrink.newsrc
#
# Shrink out all the commas in unsubscribed to groups.
#	(i.e. mark skipped articles as read)

cp $HOME/.newsrc o.newsrc
sed < $HOME/.newsrc 's/^\([^!]*![^,-]*\).*[,-]\(.*\)/\1-\2/' > /tmp/newsrc$$ &&
mv /tmp/newsrc$$ $HOME/.newsrc
ls -l o.newsrc $HOME/.newsrc
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There was also a companion program sort.newsrc which sorts .newsrc
into any desirable order.

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	Amos Shapir
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