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Article #539Re: unsubscribe ALL groups?
From: Stefan Schwarz
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:54
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:54
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wdevine@andrew.cea.pvamu.edu (William Devine II) writes: >Is there anyway to have a new .newsrc file put a new users directory that >has all of the groups unselected? Also, if this is possible, how could >they edit the .newsrc file with vi to add whichever and only whichever groups >they desired. This is the much preferred way than to have to go to >all 2800 groups and Unsubscribe. any takers? How about: mv .newsrc .newsrc.orig sed -e 's/:/!/' .newsrc.orig > .newsrc This changes all groups to unsubscribed. After then, you could change '!' to ':' for your favourite groups within an editor. Stefan -- Stefan Schwarz University of the armed forces Laboratory for graphical data processing W-8014 Neubiberg, FRG --
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ole!quick!sumax.seattleu.edu!news.u.washington.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!rz.unibw-muenchen.de!stefans From: stefans@bauv.unibw-muenchen.de (Stefan Schwarz) Newsgroups: news.software.nn Subject: Re: unsubscribe ALL groups? Date: 27 Jan 93 09:54:45 GMT Organization: University of the armed forces, Munich Lines: 20 Message-ID: <stefans.728128485@bauv106> References: <1k20g1INN80@tamsun.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bauv106.bauv.unibw-muenchen.de