Acbosgd.2001 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Fri Jan 22 09:33:43 1982 Re: Feature In response to wildbill's bug reports... The failure to update .newsrc when overrunning LINES should be fixed. To get rid of old news most easily, do readnews -p > /dev/null & There was a bug (in gamma, I think) that made checknews -e fail. If you remove an "argv++" from the source to checknews, the bug seems to go away. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.