wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (04/11/84)
Is there a way, perhaps by manipulating the .newsrc file, that I can control the sequence the newsgroups are shown when I enter simply "readnews"? Or is that set by the system administrators for the whole system by the sequence of the system-level files? Will
wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (04/12/84)
> Is there a way, perhaps by manipulating the .newsrc file, that > I can control the sequence the newsgroups are shown when I enter > simply "readnews"? Or is that set by the system administrators > for the whole system by the sequence of the system-level files? It is set by the system administrators for the whole system by the sequence the newsgroups appear in the news "active" file. This file may be found at possibly one or more of the following: ~news/active, /usr/lib/news/active, or /usr/new/lib/news/active. Hopefully, maybe some future version of news will have some user settable way of controlling one's own newsgroup order. Anybody out there working on this? -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls
mcq@druxt.UUCP (04/12/84)
---[] A couple months ago somebody said that they had made a fairly simple modification to readnews making it use the order newsgroups appeared in the .newsrc file. I use my own news reader, and this is how I chose to control it, also. It seems to me that this is the natural mechanism, and I would hope that it becomes the "official" one, if there ever is such a thing. Trouble is, existing readnews rearranges the order of the .newsrc file, making it not even compatible with this convention. Oh well. I use my own reader exclusively anyway, but it would be nice if it and readnews could be used interchangably without little flakes. Bob McQueer decvax!ihnp4!druxt!mcq
ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) (04/14/84)
Vnews 2.11 presents newsgroups in the order in which they appear in the .newsrc file. I don't know when (if?) 2.11 will be released, but at any rate help is on its way. Kenneth Almquist