rjk@mgweed.UUCP (Randy King) (03/25/85)
<><><> How about a "write" directive to put .newsrc in order? It's discouraging to read an exponential amount of articles to have it all blown off by a dropped line or other malady. And for some reason, our vnews doesn't hear SIGHUP either; it's either vnews or the way the 3B20S posts signals. It just sits there snarfing up gobs of cpu time, most probably doing syscall reads a byte-at-a-time. Sigh. Randy King AT&T-CP@MG ihnp4!mogul!rjk
rjk@mgweed.UUCP (Randy King) (03/26/85)
<><><> In my reference to a "write the newsrc file" option, I have received a few responses that I'm already familiar with, so I should clarify my original position further. I know that vnews -u will update the newsrc file every 5 minutes, or I could "while true; do vnews; done" and "q" every so often. The 5 minutes is fair, at best, because you can blast through a lot of "n's" in 4:55 seconds, and have something go wrong at 4:57. The while loop is hokey, because it presents to me articles that I have "e'd" for later (much) reading. What I'd like is to control the destiny of the writes on my .newsrc, WHENEVER I feel the karma of a crash impending. Since "u" is there, I should be able to hook into that mechanism at will from the keyboard. Randy King AT&T-CP@MG ihnp4!mgweed!rjk