edw@pinot (Ed Wright) (03/27/88)
I am now using the rn interface.
I used to use readnews which had some features that were just
great.
I have not been able to cause rn to duplicate my favorite
which was
readnews -pn news.group > filename &
^^
^|--- a specific group
^
|- everything from last read to present
no cute prompts, no user friendly stuff
just dump the news
as for why, i access news through a high load average machine
and as an added benefit get to tie up a modem too ! its better
to at a c shell to dump the groups i like to read at 2am when
the load is low, let another shell clean up things and mail me
the result on my home machine where the load average is low,
the nights are long, and the stars are bright.
I do not have an account on the machine where news lives so
i think that "hoses" the easy answer.
anybody know a way to make rn "take a dump in the file of
my choice" kind of like readnews used to do ??
Ed Wright
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In article <501@zehntel.UUCP> edw@pinot (Ed Wright) writes: > >I have not been able to cause rn to duplicate my favorite >which was > >readnews -pn news.group > filename & > >anybody know a way to make rn "take a dump in the file of >my choice" kind of like readnews used to do ?? > You should be able to do this using the KILL file capability of rn. Without going into details, I would suggest you read the section on kill files in the voluminous rn man page, and then create a KILL file which saves articles into a file. It might look something like this: KILL file for newsgroup comp.foo: THRU 3339 /^/:s some.file shell command: rn comp.foo < /dev/null & @alex inet: dupuy@columbia.edu uucp: ...!rutgers!columbia!dupuy