Re: How do I reset my read .newsrc list?

Phillip Pi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.tin.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Urs. I have about 307 lines in .newsrc. I am on a DSL connection. This 
shouldn't be a problem. Right?
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Urs [iso-8859-1] Janßen wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:09:51PM -0700, Phillip Pi wrote:
> > I know ctrl-r will reset unmarked groups, but what about the whole list of 
> > subscribed newsgroups? I am using Tin v1.6.2.
> 
> CTRL-R should rest all subscribed groups in your newsrc; depending on
> the connection and the number of groups in your newsrc it might be
> (much) faster to use something like:
> 
> mawk -F':' '/: /{print$1": 1-"}{print$l}' < ~/.newsrc > ~/.newsrc.x \
> && mv -f ~/.newsrc.x ~/.newsrc
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