Subject: Re: I want a .newsrc with everything

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 21 Feb 1995 15:38:33 -0800

[email-masked] (Byrg Bonnelycke) writes:
>If I want to get a new .newsrc file, with ALL the some 10,000 newsgroup
>names available to me on MY system, I:
>1) delete MY current .newsrc file with the UNIX command:
>              rm .newsrc
>2) call 'tin' with the UNIX command:
>              tin
>3) exit tin IMMEDIATELY and return to the UNIX prompt with tin's  
>   'q' command
>4) then search & edit the new COMPLETE .newsrc file with the vi-editor:
>              vi  .newsrc

Note that this method will only work if your sys admin has set tin
up to subscribe to all groups if there is no .newsrc.   Some sys
admins set things up so that the default is to subscribe you to
only local newsgroups and newuser newsgroups.  I think there is a
way to subscribe to everything from within tin - it involves using
y to yank in all newsgroups.  Maybe a tin user could post the 
instructions...

-- 
 /\_/\  Nancy McGough              /\_/\  Vote for the humanities.misc  @..@
( o.o ) Infinite Ink              ( o.o ) newsgroup! See my Web pages  (----)
 > ~ <  http://www.jazzie.com/ii/  > ^ <  for details.                ( >__< )