Subject: Add NEW newsgroups to .newsrc

From: Finn Hybjerg Hansen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 13:02:23 +0100

Hi Pine-people

Can pine search for new newsgroups not currently listed ind the .newsrc 
file ?

When using OTHER newstools than pine, I'm asked to subscribe to new 
newsgroups (if any) that currently was not listed in the .newsrc-file.
If I don't subscribe, the new newsgroup is just added to my .newsrc as 
unsubscribed, but it is added.

When using pine (3.91) as newsreader/tool, I don't think there is a 
possibillity to check if there is any new newsgroup not listed in the 
.newsrc-file, and in time, my .newsrc will therefore not be updated if I 
don't use other newstools.

If I have missed somthing, and it IS possible please tell me how. If not 
I would like it implemented in next version.

Regards from Finn in Denmark
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From: Alexander Zimmermann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 11:33:28 +0100

Please post the solution of the problem to the news group or send me 
private email, as I'm also interested in this.

Thanks,

Alex
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 10:03:34 -0800

On Mon, 5 Dec 1994, Finn Hybjerg Hansen wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 DEC 1994 13:02:23 +0100 
> From: Finn Hybjerg Hansen <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Add NEW newsgroups to .newsrc 
> 
> Hi Pine-people
> 

Not at this time.

> unsubscribed, but it is added.

Pine currently only adds a newsgroup when it needs to save some information
about it, i.e. subscribed, messages read.

> I would like it implemented in next version.

It is on the list, but I don't have any guess as to what version it will make
it into.... 

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 12 Dec 94 01:43:25 GMT

>Not at this time.

[...]

 >It is on the list, but I don't have any guess as to what version it will make

People might want to look at choosenews, a shell script by Scott Yanoff,
published from time to time on alt.sources.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Dec 1994 17:17:15 GMT

Finn Hybjerg Hansen <[email-masked]> writes:
>possibillity to check if there is any new newsgroup

One way you can find out about new newsgroups at your site is to put
display the last ~10 lines of the active file each time you log in.
The active file tracks newsgroups that your site receives and new
newsgroups are appended to the bottom of it.  Here at my site I'd
put this in my .login:

  tail -10 /news/newslib/active

The active file is in different directories at different sites so
you might want to ask your sys admin where it is at your site.

Hope this helps,
Nancy

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 08:03:20 -0800 (GMT)

> you might want to ask your sys admin where it is at your site.

	However, in the case where all of your news access is via
NNTP, the file may not even be on your system.

					Ed

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 03:16:00 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
R. Stewart Ellis <[email-masked]> wrote:
=People might want to look at choosenews, a shell script by Scott Yanoff,
=published from time to time on alt.sources.

People who use csh, that is.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 19 Dec 94 14:43:39 GMT

>People who use csh, that is.

Last I checked SVR4 would exec a csh for you if it encounters a scrip that
starts with:

#!/bin/csh -f
# ChooseNews II.  Version 2.4 By Scott A. Yanoff    [email-masked]
# (C) 1994 Computing Services Division, Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

even if you are running another shell as your login shell.  Xenix would not
properly sort out this sort of stuff, but that was a long time ago and I am
reasonably certain that all versions of SVR4 and BSD will handle that.  I
have not experience with Linux, but believe it knows how to handle this as
well.

Mailed and posted.