Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!homxa!dman From: dman@homxa.UUCP (#D.ANDERSON) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: New Readnews -- an idea for a command Message-ID: <113@homxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 12:05:03 EST Article-I.D.: homxa.113 Posted: Mon Feb 6 12:05:03 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 02:42:05 EST Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 16 Here at the hocc I implemented a command that updates the .newsrc to the currently oldest articles on the machine. It seemed in our 2.10, if a new user started reading netnews, a group with many articles (like unix wizards) would take forever to get into - it was trying to find the first N articles. I do some of the work each night when the spool directories are cleaned, and some when the user invokes the command. Also whenever a new user executes readnews, if a .newsrc can not be found the default is copied in. Readnews runs real fast this way for us. This is fairly quick to change into an 'update to currently recieved news' program. Most of it is in shell (written quick and dirty) and easily modifiable. If there is interest, maybe I can post it to the net. Dave Anderson (201) 949-5552