Subject: does Pine 3.85 update a user's .newsrc?

From: [email-masked] (Thomas Andrew Newman)
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 14:16:28 -0800

Hi,

If it can, how does a user set her .pinerc settings?

Also, with delete-skips-deleted added to the feature-list, "N" does not
skip the next message if it has been marked for deletion. Am I missing
something?

thanks,
Tom
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 14:33:08 -0800 (PST)

> If it can, how does a user set her .pinerc settings?

Yes, it can.  From an earlier reply on the same subject:

Here is the applicable line from my .pinerc file.  Substitute the name of
your own news host... 

  news-collections=News *{news.u.washington.edu/nntp}[]

Note that this assumes you have a preexisting .newsrc file on the machine
where you are running Pine.  Pine does not yet have support for posting
to newsgroups, nor for subscribing/unsubscribing.

> skip the next message if it has been marked for deletion. Am I missing

You're not missing anything... I guess you are requesting a
"next-skips-deleted" option, (but then it becomes more challenging to ever
get back to a deleted msg).   Note that TAB skips deleted and already seen
msgs.

-teg