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In article <9rpc22$f4l$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
David McDuffee <mcduffee@best.com> wrote:
>> I'll miss best.* when I close this account in a few weeks (making
>> sure the transition has settled out), but then I'd miss best.* as
>> soon as Verio moved me to the new service.
>
>I guess I've been migrated.
>
>I have to ssh to a new domain now to get my email, but the new domain
>doesn't know anything about trn, rn, nn, or anything else I've tried.

I have one .newsrc with best.* only, and another one with everything
else.  That way I can read news on shell3, yet keep up a .newsrc file
that is useable on the new machine.  My ~/bin/trn script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh -x
# Name: bin/trn2		Author: Joe Smith <inwap@best.com> 20-Jun-2000
# Purpose: Runs 'trn' on 2nd nntp server

# Save existing .newsrc (in case of HUP or other abort)
if grep -q best.general .newsrc; then
  cp -p .newsrc News/newsrc.best
else
  cp -p .newsrc News/newsrc.verio
fi

NNTPSERVER=nntp1.ba.best.com; export NNTPSERVER
cp News/newsrc.best .newsrc
/usr/local/bin/trn ${1+"$@"}
cp -p .newsrc News/newsrc.best

NNTPSERVER=news.ncal.verio.net; export NNTPSERVER
cp News/newsrc.verio .newsrc
/usr/local/bin/trn ${1+"$@"}
cp -p .newsrc News/newsrc.verio



On the new machine, ~/bin/trn is different, and looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -x /usr/local/bin/trn ]; then      # Check if installed yet
  /usr/local/bin/trn ${1+"$@"}
else
  echo "/usr/local/bin/trn does not exist - running 'tin -r' instead"
  sleep 1
  tin -r
fi

		-Joe
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