Subject: Re: How do I get to see the full groups list?

From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 7 Dec 1994 19:53:27 GMT

Comes here Mr. Dieter Britz with this opinion in "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on Wed, 7 Dec 1994 14:42:08 +0100:

 +   Having subscribed to 6 groups, I now get to see only those 6. How do I
 +   access the list of ALL groups, and how can I get that list into a file,
 +   so I can print it and read it at home at my leisure?

Goto the (L)ist screen, then choose the Newsgroups group list. Hit A to
subscribe to groups, then hit control-t for all newsgroups. You will see the
complete list...(S)ubscribe to the ones you want and (E)xit. Enjoy!

The group list is/will be stored in a file called ".newsrc" in your home dir.

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 08:38:20 -0800 (GMT)

> The group list is/will be stored in a file called ".newsrc" in your home dir.

	I think you misunderstood the question slightly.  (Or my pine
works a bit different than yours.)  I believe the original poster wanted
to see the entire list of newsgroups that were available placed in a file
so that he could read at his leisure.  

	While the method you describe does *show* all the groups on the
screen....it only saves the ones you've subscribed to in the .newsrc file.

					Ed

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From: Dieter Britz <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 16:15:48 +0100

> screen....it only saves the ones you've subscribed to in the .newsrc file.
Thank you Wet-Sprocket and you're right, Ed, I wanted (and still want) to 
have a file of group names.
So comes here Mr. Dieter Britz again with his opinion and asks once more; 
how?
(What ^^^^^^^ is all this? Some kind of newspeak that has gone past me??
Opinion?? Comes here?).

-- Dieter Britz  alias  [email-masked]

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Dec 1994 16:47:10 GMT

>So comes here Mr. Dieter Britz again with his opinion and asks once more; 

If nn is on your system you can use the following:

Type...                In order to...
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nngrep -a |less        Use less to view list of all newsgroups at your site
nngrep -a > print.me   Put the list of all newsgroups in file named print.me

There should be a file on your system that contains a list of all newsgroups 
that your site receives, with a short description for many of the newsgroups.
This file is in different places on different machines so you should ask your 
system administrator where it is on your machine (make sure you mention the 
descriptions otherwise s/he might point you to a file named active which is
not nearly as useful as the file with descriptions).  I have the master list 
accessible from my Internet Web page <URL:http://www.jazzie.com/internet/> - 
it has around 9900 newsgroups in it!

Good luck,
Nancy

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