lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (03/17/89)
Anyone out there making enhancements or fixes to rrn? I have two things
that I would love to see, but don't know where to start.
1. when i am in newsgroup selection mode, an l patt is supposed to show
me all newsgroups which match that pattern, broken into read and unread
groups. What REALLY happens is that I type "l app" and I get this message:
Completely unsubscribed newsgroups:
cat: cannot open /usr/lib/news/active: No such file or directory
[Type return to continue]
Unsubscribed but mentioned in .newsrc:
How should newsgroups be modified to process this file? Note that
I tried making a modification to the program to a) rcp the active file
from my nntp server and b) find the filexp command on my local machine.
The errors go away but I don't get any output either.
2. The bigger problem is that I am looking for some way to modify rrn so that
I dont have to quit leaving the program and starting it back up. I would
like to be able to have the program running all day and just go and read
in it off and on. I have no problems with this being as simple as a command
to close off the nntp connection until I perform some other normal rn
function and that triggering a new reopen. But I have a feeling that there
would be a lot of other things that would get out of sync just
making this simple change.
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