Anpois.290
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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!houxi!npois!pcl
Wed Feb 10 17:39:24 1982
Re: Long .newsrc file followup
Kirk Smith tells about a file full of n's and ended by a q.
The effect can more easily be accomplished by saying:
       readnews -p > /dev/null
This will print out all the news items without asking for a 'ynq'
and throws them all away (/dev/null).  It will record that you have
read everything that goes by.  This way you don't make (or keep)
a file full of n's and you don't waist time reading from that
file, you just waist time outputing the news items.
                       Paul (npois!pcl)

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