Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!dimare From: dimare@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: rdm? A better interface than v/readnews Message-ID: <804@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 16:13:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.804 Posted: Tue Aug 14 16:13:40 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 07:16:03 EDT Organization: UCLA CS Dept. Lines: 26 Sorry, but postnews didn't deliver my first message, only the second. What I want is a program that can look up the .newsrc file (to figure out which groups I'm suscribed), and then concatenate together all the corresponding messages separating one from another by some special line, like . This would let me use the rdm (UCLA) command to read the news. The advantage of rdm is that it can list a full screen of subjects, and lets you skip fast over the messages you don't want to read. As an example, whenever I receive ai-digest, I create a file of the same name and then execute the following command: awk '/^Date/ { print ""} { print }' ai-digest > t; rdm t; rm t which means: look for Date at the beginning of the line, and when found precede it by . After this, rdm can recognize message boundaries. Then use rdm to read the mail in file t, and then kill it. The problem on writing this shell script is handling the .newsrc file. Does anybody have something similar? Adolfo /// dimare@ucla-locus.arpa