Aeagle.154
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utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mhtsa!eagle!jal
Mon Dec 7 13:27:46 1981
Bnews: conversion prog
Here is an updated version of the conversion program provided
earlier. The update is needed because the previous version
would look for uid's in /etc/passwd and would find some within
encrypted passwords (oops).
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Here is a shell script that will create a .newsrc file for
the person that runs it. It extracts the data from .uindex.
NOTE: It does NOT preserve any .newsrc file that was there before.
UID=`grep "^$LOGNAME:" /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3`
SUBS=`grep "^$UID" /usr/spool/news/.uindex | cut -d: -f3 | tr "," "\040"`
echo "options -n $SUBS" > $HOME/.newsrc
echo '$HOME/.newsrc' created
eagle!jal
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gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <
[email protected]>
of
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/
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