.newsrc file fixer

[Bernie Cosell]

In article <2672 at taux01.UUCP> amos at taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
}In article <8437 at boring.cwi.nl> dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
}>There is however a much easier
}>procedure to get at (nearly) the same result:
}>	cp .newsrc .newsrc.old
}>	sed -e '/!/d' .newsrc.old >.newsrc
}>This will throw away all lines mentioning groups you are not subscribed to
}
}The point of keeping unsubscribed groups in .newsrc is that whenever a
}new group is created, rn will ask you if you want to add it.  


This isn't true (here at BBN, at least): in fact, rn only asks you about
adding really-new newsgroups.  I regularly delete the !ed groups from my
.newsrc and it works just fine.

  /Bernie\