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Anpois.290 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!houxi!npois!pcl Wed Feb 10 17:39:24 1982 Re: Long .newsrc file followup Kirk Smith tells about a file full of n's and ended by a q. The effect can more easily be accomplished by saying: readnews -p > /dev/null This will print out all the news items without asking for a 'ynq' and throws them all away (/dev/null). It will record that you have read everything that goes by. This way you don't make (or keep) a file full of n's and you don't waist time reading from that file, you just waist time outputing the news items. Paul (npois!pcl)

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