sjb (06/13/82)
The file new.2.7 (from the 2.7 news.tar) says that the value of the variable NEWSRC is checked for a path to the .newsrc file. This implies that a path starting from root (/) is expected, which appears to be incorrect. News seems to prepend the value of NEWSRC to the home directory. Thus, to set it to /usr/xxx/.newsrc (where /usr/xxx is your $HOME), just say NEWSRC=.newsrc export NEWSRC (for sh'ers) or setenv NEWSRC .newsrc (for csh'ers) Adam