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This is a request for a neat vnews feature to be put into vn.

I am currently using vnews, but I have seen vn, and I like its
browsing-style features.

However, there is a major (for me) feature that vn lacks! (and that vnews
has)  It is not well documented in the man page, but if you put a '%s' at
the end of your NEWSBOX variable (which is set for the root directory for
all saved articles), you get a one-level subdirectory structure, with one
directory per newsgroup with saved articles. eg. NEWSBOX=$HOME/netnews/%s  
implies that the following directory and file will be created (given the
saving of an article named foo in the newsgroup news.misc):
$HOME/netnews/news.misc/foo

It is simply great for a fairly simple hunk of shell code to go through
those directories and print, save, (or whatever) the files as you wish in
an automated fashion.  I can supply the source (for my personal setup) for
those really interested (if any :-)).

SOOOOOOOOOO, the big question:

HOW CAN WE GET THIS KIND OF FEATURE INTO VN (without unsupported patches)?
WILL THIS POSTING REACH THE RIGHT PERSON?

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Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka