Au1100a.112 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!eagle!ihnss!houxi!u1100a!rick Fri Feb 5 10:13:56 1982 Re: Long .newsrc file One can accomplish the same thing with "readnews -p -n [groups you want to get rid of] > /dev/null" but you still have to "N" thru them until you do the above, unless you have them "!"ed out in your options line. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.