jvc@stl.UUCP (Vic Churchill) (05/16/86)
I used to find that there were some newsgroups that I just never got round to reading because they were so far down my .newsrc... until I saw the light. The following csh hack gives you a different .newsrc each day of the week ; you split your .newsrc into five pieces .newsrc.<Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri> and then select the appropriate one for the day. That way there is some chance that you can keep up with the smaller number of groups. ***** put this in your .login **** set today=`date` set todays_newsrc=.newsrc.`echo $today | sed "s/^\(...\).*/\1/"` ln `echo $todays_newsrc` .newsrc alias rn ~/.my.rn ***** <You might hope that just doing a 'ln' would do, and that rn would then update .newsrc.xxx when you read news. Unfortunately the 'ln' alone is not enough; rn makes its own copy of what it sees as .newsrc and works on that one. So you need the '.my.rn' to restore your .newsrc.xxx . > afterwards: ***** put this in .my.rn **** #! /bin/csh -f rn set today=`date` set todays_newsrc=~/.newsrc.`echo $today | sed "s/^\(...\).*/\1/"` echo Copying .newsrc to `echo $todays_newsrc` ... cp ~/.newsrc `echo $todays_newsrc` ***** Bugs: don't be reading news at midnight. Also, you see things twice if the same newsgroup appears on two different days. -- the main educational value of kids' toys is to give them experience of clearing things up when they've finished. Vic Churchill (jvc@stl ...!mcvax!ukc!stl!jvc +44-279-29531 x 2546)