Apur-ee.217
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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ks
Fri Feb 5 03:06:51 1982
2nd Followup on long .newsrc files
On advice from ucbvax!peter, I admit that my previous method suggested for
getting rid of long .newsrc files was a bit crude and non-hacker-like.
On his prompting, I am suggesting a Bourne shell file "clean.news" which
will accomplish the same thing in a much cleaner fashion.
The text follows:
ed - .newsrc > /dev/null <<! ! 2,\$D N Q W | YES READNEWS> /dev/null
You might want to fork this one off in the background. On a DUAL VAX 11/780,
it took almost 4 minutes to run with only 35 people logged on. It took about
2 minutes CPU time. But it sure cleans up your .newsrc file faster than you
could do it by hand.....
Kirk Smith
Purdue University
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