Apur-ee.217 net.general 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 < /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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.