Subject: forcing pine to update .newsrc

From: nuk <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:25:29 -0400 (EDT)

Is it possible to force pine to update the .newsrc file manually, other
than exiting and restarting pine?  I run pine in screen on a shell
provider, and periodically screen gets killed off, and if the .newsrc
hasnt been updated recently, well the next time I go to read news there is
a whole buttload of new messages :(  In slrn I have gotten in the habit of
pressing 'x' to force a write to the .newsrc so that it is always updated
before I disconnect from a screen session.  Anything similar in pine?

TIA,

nuk

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:09:43 -0700 (PDT)

*** nuk ([email-masked]) wrote on Sep 2, 2001:

:) Is it possible to force pine to update the .newsrc file manually,
:) other than exiting and restarting pine?

The .newsrc file gets updated when you close the newsgroup that were
reading. I haven't found any other way to do this.

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Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: nuk <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:04:45 -0400 (EDT)

> reading. I haven't found any other way to do this.

Well, what I am running into is that if I use slrn for a while, w/o
updating the .newsrc by forcing a manual update w/ 'x', if I get dropped
and restart slrn, it shows many, many messages as unread, basically all
the way back to the last time I either exited slrn or saved the .newsrc.
Understandable.  Annoying, but understandable.

Now toss pine into the mix.  I can read messages all day long in slrn, go
to pine for a couple of days, and then go back to slrn (don't ask why, I
just do at times ;P )  Now, when I open up slrn, all the news messages
show as unread all the way back to the last time I used slrn.  Pine didn't
make a dent on my .newsrc.  That's just weird.

nuk