ken@ihuxq.UUCP (10/12/83)
it would be nice, wouldn't it? i'm not holding my breath, though, so i wrote a quickie kludge to update my .newsrc file to a specified article number. when i see i'm on article 401 of 899, i quit readnews & do my shell script nomore <newsgroup> 899 source is pretty simple: echo "all articles up to $2 to be ignored from newsgroup $1" ( echo "/$1/s/[:!].*/: 1-$2/"; echo "w q" ) | ed - $HOME/.newsrc well, it beats hitting 498 n's. ken perlow ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken
ken@ihuxq.UUCP (10/12/83)
that should be echo "w\nq" ) | ed - $HOME/.newsrc forgot how backslash-n's get stripped off. sorry.
israel@umcp-cs.UUCP (10/14/83)
Instead of writing a program to update your .newsrc to the last number of a newsgroup, you can always do: readnews -p -n <newsgroup> >& /dev/null & which will totally clear a newsgroup. But I still think that it should be do-able from within 'readnews'. -- ~~~ Bruce ~~~ Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland {rlgvax,seismo}!umcp-cs!israel (Usenet) israel.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay (Arpanet)
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (10/17/83)
2.11 already has a destructive N command, you type no! and it n's everything in the newsgroup. The syntax may later change to ng (No to Group) but the evolution of 2.11 is far from clear. No, don't hold your breath. 2.11 is nowhere near ready to go. Mark