🚀 go-pugleaf

        If you can get to the % prompt on your internet node, type ls -al
this will list all your files, visible and hidden as well as their lengths.
The file labeled .newsrc has all the newsgroups available to you at your
node.  Those marked with a colon are live when you use the newsreader
called tin.  Those with an exclamation point are not.

        Take the trouble to download the .newsrc file, load it into
your word processor, alphabetize it, set a small font, and do it in
three columns.  It'll still print out to 15 to 20 pages, but you'll
have the whole thing in front of you.

        To access any specific newsgroup, type tin sci.physics.fusion
(for example)

        Easier still is to take that .newsrc file you downloaded and

Step 1 Use search and replace to change all : to !

Step 2 Change the ! to : for the newsgroups you specifically want to read
on a regular basis.

Step 3 Save the file as ASCII text

Step 4 Upload it to your internet node, change its name back to .newsrc
(PCs do not like to start file names with . so your communications
package should change it to a legal file name, if you have a good
comm package.)

Step 5 Change the name back to .newsrc by typing mv $newsrc .newsrc
where the $ is the replacement character your smart comm package
used instead of .

Step 6 type tin and a menu of the newsgroups you selected will be
offered for you perusal.  Have a blast.

Charles Toth
umd5.umd.edu