fldop (06/28/82)
I have a problem with netnews that I hope someone out there in net- land can help me with. I have a goodly number of newsgroups in the options line in my .newsrc file (specified in the affirmative, i.e. "options -n grp1 grp2 grp3 .... grpn"), but many of them never show up when I run readnews. It seems to be ones that fall later in the options line, but I'm not sure yet that this is always the case. Could it be that I have exceeded a limit on the length of this line? I thought that 512 chars. was the limit (I believe that one of the speakers at a recent symposium on exptools said this), and my options line falls within that. The missing newsgroups *do* show up if I ask for them when executing readnews (using "-n"). Thanks in advance for any help with this. Nick Di Masi ...!ihnss!ihuxq!fldop " " iwsl4!njd