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utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!sdcarl!rusty
Mon Dec  7 21:32:34 1981
Bnews conversion
Re: eagle!jal's shell script for making your .newsrc file, you may
not have the program "cut", here is the equivalent script that uses
"sed":

UID=`grep "^$LOGNAME:" /etc/passwd | sed -e 's/\(.*\):\(.*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\([0-9][0-9]\):\(.*\):\(.*\):\(.*\)/\3/'`
SUBS=`grep "^$UID" /usr/spool/news/.uindex | sed -e 's/.*://' | tr "," "\040"`
echo "options -n $SUBS" > $HOME/.newsrc
echo '$HOME/.newsrc' created

The first line that sets UID has a hairy re for sed; I confess to not
being to handy with re's. You may have to do something different to get
$LOGNAME, use `whoami` for instance. Same caveats apply to $HOME.

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