mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (07/01/88)
I'm trying to get vn to look only at the subscribed-to newsgroups in
a local news top-level group called "tek".
When I say "vn -n tek.all" it does all the tek newsgroups, INCLUDING
the ones I'm not subscribed to.
If I put in an options line at the top of my .newsrc file that looks
like "options -n tek.all" or "options -n tek.*", vn appears to ignore
that options line.
What's the correct magic? This is vn version "4/88 res1.1".
Thanks,
Mike Khaw
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Just made a check to see that the logic is still working as intended - it is. The options line in the .newsrc is thrown away IF you specified any command line arguments. "vn" all by itself reads the options line. The subscription marks are paid attention to for -n options obtained from the .newsrc, but not for -n options which came from the command line. The added -S option may be used on the command line to make it pay attention to subscription marks. The intent of all this was to be able to override whatever is in the .newsrc file through the command line. I normally run with no options line, and I'm subscribed to "ba.all", except for ba.test. I inserted an options line: options -xn ba.all vn by itself netted me ba.<everything> everything but ba.test. vn -n ba.all netted ba.<everything> INCLUDING ba.test. vn -Sn ba.all netted ba.<everything> except ba.test.