Aucbarpa.657 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:glickman Fri Jan 15 23:06:14 1982 Re: .newsrc query Every time you read news, the whole goddam .newsrc is initially read in. During your session, each time a newsgroup is selected the in-core .newsrc line is expanded to a bit-map. When another group is selected, the bit-map is compressed back into the in-core .newsrc line. In the End, the whole goddam in-core .newsrc is written back out, no matter what. Guess what? If you left readnews in the middle and modified your .newsrc, the changes go away when the thing is written out again. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.