Rebuild a .newsrc file

[Matthew Farwell]

In article <1990Oct3.014039.27275 at cbnews.att.com> lvc at cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
>In article <2713 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>>   Someone asked about rebuilding a .newsrc file.
>Here's a pretty quick one in awk.
> [ solution deleted ]

or
sed -e 's/ .*/:/' /usr/lib/news/active > $HOME/.newsrc

Dylan.
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