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raven
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Search for usenet group?
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Oct 17 03:57 UTC 1994 |
What command do I use under TRN to search for a certin type of usenet
group? For example I'm searching for a group with information on handmade
paper and printmaking.
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srw
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response 1 of 15:
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Oct 17 05:13 UTC 1994 |
If you know any part of the name, you can use "l".
l foo will list all the groups with foo in theur name.
It makes 2 separate scans, 1 for unsubcribed groups in your .newsrc,
and 1 for such groups that aren't even in your .newsrc.
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kentn
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response 2 of 15:
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Oct 17 05:35 UTC 1994 |
What if what you are looking for is not in your .newsrc (subscribed
or unsubscribed)?
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rcurl
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response 3 of 15:
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Oct 17 06:22 UTC 1994 |
I got lists of all newsgroups and alt-newsgroups from news.announce.newusers,
but I haven't seen a reposting of them there for a while (in fact, I
haven't seen any news at all, for a while - things went down after the
crash and raid: are they back up?).
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hawkeye
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response 4 of 15:
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Oct 17 18:39 UTC 1994 |
Do this: Make a backup of your .newsrc file. Then delete it. When you
next run "rn", you *should* get a *new* .newsrc created that has *all*
the groups in it. YOu can then go make a copy of that and replace
your previous .newsrc file.
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kentn
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response 5 of 15:
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Oct 18 03:21 UTC 1994 |
Oh gawwwd...that's exactly what I *don't* want...
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hawkeye
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response 6 of 15:
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Oct 18 16:45 UTC 1994 |
Why not? It would be very easy to "grep" from that listing to find what
you want...
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rcurl
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response 7 of 15:
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Oct 18 20:53 UTC 1994 |
My .newsrc has only the newsgroups I've joined and, as far as I know, never
had any others. Does grex now index the .newsrc with all ngs?
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kentn
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response 8 of 15:
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Oct 18 21:47 UTC 1994 |
hawkeye, I can do without an 80K .newsrc, thank you very much. I
only put the newsgroups I want to read in my .newsrc.
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robh
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response 9 of 15:
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Oct 18 23:04 UTC 1994 |
Another trick, folks - try "a foo", where foo is a string
containing, well, something about the groups you're looking
for. This command goes through all available newsgroups
containing that string, and asks if you want to subscribe.
This is the one I usually use.
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raven
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response 10 of 15:
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Oct 19 01:39 UTC 1994 |
The l command worked fine in TRN. Only problem is I didn't find a
newsgroup relating to handmade paper :-(. Thanks for the help though :-).
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rcurl
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response 11 of 15:
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Oct 19 06:12 UTC 1994 |
rec.crafts.misc Handiwork arts not covered elsewhere.
There is also rec.crafts.textiles
(I pulled this from my copy of Newsgroups-II, which I think is available
(along with I, and Alt-Newsgroups I and II), in news.lists)
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hawkeye
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response 12 of 15:
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Oct 20 12:50 UTC 1994 |
RE #8. No, my point is that you get an 80K .newsrc file *once* so you
can scan it for all the groups you might be interested in. Then you
can replace it with your *old*, smaller .newsrc file.
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kentn
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response 13 of 15:
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Oct 20 15:52 UTC 1994 |
Then my point would be, I do this often enough that I don't want to
wait for trn to generate that 80K (actually it's closer to 120K now)
file every time I want to scan it for groups. Where's the list of
active newsgroups?
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robh
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response 14 of 15:
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Oct 21 02:03 UTC 1994 |
Y'know, I asked that over in Info a few months ago. Never did
get a response. You wouldn't believe how many help-seekers
ask me that. (Then again, maybe you would. >8)
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rcurl
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response 15 of 15:
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Oct 21 04:44 UTC 1994 |
I'm told its all in news.lists I'm going to g that, and check.
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