newbery@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) (12/15/87)
A feature I would like to see in 'rn', especially when faced with a huge
amount of news to read, is a catchup which *really* marks all articles
as read - i.e. does *not* present them to me again in other news groups
to which they have been cross-posted. Unfortunately the obvious choice for
such a command ("C") has already been used.
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Michael Newbery
ACSnet: newbery@vuwcomp.nz UUCP: newbery@vuwcomp
Une boule qui roule tue les poules. (Landslides kill chickens)heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby) (12/31/87)
I wanted to do the same thing a while back. I don't remember who told me how to do it, probably Larry Wall, himself! Here's an rn macro that creates a CTRL-C command that "junks" all the articles in the current newsgroup. Junking also marks articles as read in the other groups to which they were cross-posted. In $HOME/.rnmac, I have the line: ^C $/\136/:j^J The circumflex characters (^) are literally in the file. There is a single tab character after the capital C and before the dollar sign ($). -- Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix "Intel architectures build character."
ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler) (01/07/88)
In article <106@falkor.UUCP>, heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes: > Here's an rn macro that > creates a CTRL-C command that "junks" all the articles in the current > newsgroup. Junking also marks articles as read in the other groups to > which they were cross-posted. In $HOME/.rnmac, I have the line: > > ^C $/\136/:j^J > > The circumflex characters (^) are literally in the file. There is a > single tab character after the capital C and before the dollar sign ($). Did this work for anybody else?? Didn't work for me . . . Also, being a neophyte to rn, was there a compile switch I missed?? Every time I start up rn with a net (rn misc), I ALWAYS have to go through these: ******** 0 unread articles in comp.bugs.misc--read now? [ynq] n ******** 0 unread articles in comp.mail.misc--read now? [ynq] n ******** 0 unread articles in comp.misc--read now? [ynq] n ******** 0 unread articles in comp.protocols.misc--read now? [ynq] n ******** 0 unread articles in comp.sources.misc--read now? [ynq] n ******** 0 unread articles in comp.std.misc--read now? [ynq] n ******** 287 unread articles in misc.consumers.house--read now? [ynq] I don't really care about '0 unread articles'!! This is a short list . . . it sometimes get's long and tedious. Any ideas?? Phil Ritzenthaler |USnail: University Computer Services Good at all, Master at none! | 241 Math-Science Bldg. UUCP :.!cbosgd!osu-cis!bgsuvax!ritzenth | Bowling Green State University CSNET: ritzenth@bgsu.edu | Bowling Green, OH 43403-0125 ARPA : ritzenth%bgsu.edu@relay.cs.net | Phone: (419) 372-2102