Subject: Where is the news collection?

From: [email-masked] (Deedlit)
Date: 29 Mar 1997 10:56:45 GMT

I am using pine 3.95 now. I wonder where pine puts its news group list in.
When I used netsape, I put one new newsgroup in. But then I open pine news 
reader the new added news group is already there. Why? Does it mean they are 
using the same news group list? But where is this list? I searched all the 
home directory, but I didn't find something like news News directory. 

wei

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 09:53:58 +0200 (CEST)

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On 29 Mar 1997, Deedlit wrote:

  >I am using pine 3.95 now. 
  
Grats.  
  
  >I wonder where pine puts its news group list in. When I used netsape, I
  >put one new newsgroup in. But then I open pine news reader the new added
  >news group is already there. Why? Does it mean they are using the same
  >news group list? But where is this list? I searched all the home
  >directory, but I didn't find something like news News directory.

It's a file called ".newsrc". The "." means it's invisible. Check your
.pinerc for the appropriate settings. Since you don't seem to be overly
familiar with u*ix systems, you'd better ask your local help desk for
further information.

*Don't* just mess with these files.

Later,
Robin

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