rfarris@serene.CTS.COM (Rick Farris) (10/27/88)
In article <520@xroads.UUCP>, coffin@xroads (Chris Coffin) writes:
`I have a question about rn that I havent been able to figure out
`so far.
Me too. (I'm not so sure this is the proper newsgroup for this, but there
seems to be some precedent...)
I start up rn using the -/ option (which I learned about in TFM, by the way),
so I have this miniature news spool directory structure arrayed beneath my
home directory. My question is:
Is there any way to direct rn to use this alternate directory tree instead of
the standard /usr/spool/news ? Not all the time; just when I want to review
the articles I've saved.
Barring that, is there some other utility designed for the purpose of browsing
old articles? (Yes, I know about grep :-)
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Del Mar CA 92014 ...!uunet!serene!rfarris serene.uucp 259-3704lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (10/28/88)
In article <303@serene.CTS.COM> rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris) writes:
: I start up rn using the -/ option (which I learned about in TFM, by the way),
: so I have this miniature news spool directory structure arrayed beneath my
: home directory. My question is:
:
: Is there any way to direct rn to use this alternate directory tree instead of
: the standard /usr/spool/news ? Not all the time; just when I want to review
: the articles I've saved.
Not yet. There is a bit of a design problem in deciding how to assign article
numbers to files that may have alpha names.
: Barring that, is there some other utility designed for the purpose of browsing
: old articles? (Yes, I know about grep :-)
How about perl? :-) :-) :-)
Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov