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Wed Dec 23 16:15:10 1981
a simple readnews shell script
I was having trouble using readnews because someone
fixed it without fixing it correctly a few days ago, and
I decided to write my own simple readnews.  The escapes are
valid for csh, but should be readily translatable into sh.
The assumption is that you have a file called .newsprof
in your home directory which was last modified when you last read
the news.  Someone should write newsgroup handlers for it
(using environmental variables) and maybe options.
Alternatively, one could use sed and make it more like readnews
or the mh program.  However, I bet the whole thing could be
done from existing programs using a shell script.
(# is just the comment line character in csh--if the first
line of a script is not a comment line, csh assumes it is a sh
script)

#
find /usr/spool/news -name '[1-9]*' -newer $HOME/.newsprof  '\!'\
       -type d -exec head -6 {} ';' -ok more {} ';'
touch $HOME/.newsprof


                                       Joel Rubin

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