Re: newsrc problem? also: marking articles UNread

Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

 > The times it has happened that have confused me are
 > times when tin (or more likely my remote terminal session) has hung
 > for some reason and I've forgotten about it. I then run another tin
 > session which exits normally and all appears to be well until
 > something 'clears up' the hung session and that old tin exits and
 > writes an 'old' .newsrc file.

Oh, you might be right. I often log in via a telnet window (from
work - can't use SSH), and the connection is often very shaky. So
yes, the terminal session times out all the time. I should've
realized that the processes from the hung login might continue
running, or resume if the problem resolves, and that would rewrite
the file.

 >> The other question is, how do I mark an article *unread* once I
 >> have read it?
 >
 > Isn't this simply 'z'?

So it is! I didn't know that command. Thank you!

Joyce