Subject: Format of .newsrc?

From: Diethard Ohrt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:46:38 +0100 (MET)

I had a .newsrc file produced by "tin". The lines were like

siemens.graz.test: 1-4

Pine refused to read any News, it just complained: No messages (or alike).
It only worked when I removed the numbers in each line, but now tin marks
all news as unread. Is this a desired behaviour of Pine?

Cheers,
Diti
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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 7 Nov 1996 21:43:39 GMT

[Posted and mailed]

In article <[email-masked]>,
>all news as unread. Is this a desired behaviour of Pine?

Well, Pine's idea of deleted articles (in newsgroups) is the same as
tin and others' idea of read ones.

Therefore, if you have already read all articles using tin, you will
not see any articles from within pine.

To see already read articles in pine, press & for unexclude.

Similarly, if you want tin to know what articles you have read with
pine, you should use "D" to go to the next article when reading news
in pine. The article will not become invisible until you leave the
newsgroup or use eXclude explicitely.

If this still does not solve your problem, you might also check that pine
and tin are using the same news server, as otherwise their idea of which
articles the read article numbers in .newsrc refer to would be different.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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