lipkis (04/30/83)
One of the non-default things I most often want to do with readnews is to look again at some article I read during the current session. The only reasonable way to do this is (assuming the article is in the last 2 days of news for newsgroup net.xyz is: readnews -x -n net.xyz -a yesterday Every time I've tried this I get no response from readnews before I get bored with waiting -- I end up going into .newsrc and editing the line that says what articles I've read in net.xyz. This is yechhy! What gives? Is readnews in an infinite loop, or have I tricked it into some sort of exponential algorithm (with Unix software, you never know). In either case, is there a better way than fooling around manually with readnews' database? (Please reply to: ...!cmcl2!acf2!condict , NOT this message address) Michael Condict Courant Inst. New York U.
dmmartindale (05/03/83)
If you do "readnews -x", it takes a LONG time to figure out what the first article actually present on the machine is. Try "readnews -xr" instead, and it will start at the most recent article (which is probably closer to what you wanted).