how to use "rnews" ?

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From: Harel Barzilai
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 04:39

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I've been using "rn" to readnews and recently discovered the existence
of "rnews" as a command -- although it's not listed under "info" that
I could find, nor is it in the Emacs Manual ('87) I have.

My problem when I tried using it is that it keeps thinking there are
no new articles to read, and gives "no news is good news" for all the
groups. If, for example, I have read thru article 100 using "rn" and
articles 101 and 102 are unread, then when I try to "rnews" in emacs,
is just gives me something like:


--%%-NEWS:misc.test              (NEWS 100/100)----All----------


in the bottom line; using "g" only gets another "no news is good news"

Can anyone tell me what I am doing / is going wrong?

Please reply by email if possible

Thanks,

Harel

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Subject: how to use "rnews" ?
Summary: keep getting "no news is good news"
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