Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.

Dik T. Winter dik at cwi.nl
Wed Apr 27 18:09:50 AEST 1988


In article <11237 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
 > In article <2083 at quacky.mips.COM> dce at mips.COM (David Elliott) writes:
 > >Why write a C program when a standard Unix utility can do the trick?
 > >
 > >sed [amazing sed command deleted]
 > 
 > Because sed has a limit of BUFSIZ (or LBSIZE, but I suspect that is
 > for the hold buffer) length lines.
 > 
 > (Actually, I prefer to edit long .newsrc lines with Emacs.)
 > -- 
Actually I have never a need to edit long .newsrc lines, because I do
not get them.  How?  Simple, I removed all unsubscribed newsgroups from
it (makes rn start faster also).  And rn will not ask you everytime
about them, it only asks about truly new groups.
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