Subject: pine news & .newsrc

From: David Clark <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 17:56:09 -0600

I'm writing some documentation on using pine as a newsreader & would like 
some help. For the new user (on my system at least) a .newsrc file is not 
automatically created. If a user goes into pine for the first time and 
wants to read the news he/she cannot until the .newsrc file has been 
created in their UNIX directory. I've gotten around this in classes I've 
taught by having them start up nn first. nn creates the .newsrc, then I 
have them quit nn and start up pine to read the news.

My question-Is there any way to create a .newsrc in a user's directory
solely from the pine interface?

Thanks in advance

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 19:49:49 -0700 (PDT)

David,
Pine should create a .newsrc automatically when you first subscribe to a 
newsgroup.

-teg