HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Reading in text files to post
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:11:19 GMT
Organization: MegaCorp Central Complex

tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:

>In article <C1DI99.FGK@CAM.ORG> emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend) writes:

>>Depends on the editor.  vi doesn't seem to allow it, which is why I switched
>>to joe.

>Do you mean ":r filename<return>" in your vi doesn't insert a file
>where the cursor is?

>Surely you jest.

I've gotten more mail on this subject than I can stand.  I hereby announce
that I'm sorry, I'll go and get better documentation (my book makes NO mention
of ":r filename"), and next time someone asks for help I'll just shut up
instead of offering what I can.  OK?

Christ.  It'd be nice if half the people who jumped on me for this one
could've responded to the original poster.
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Reading in text files to post
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:59:13 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

mhatz@nyx.cs.du.edu (Macs Suck!) writes:

>I have gotten a copy of the man pages and pored through the reference
>commands, but cannot figure out how to read in a text file I have written
>that I would like to post.  Thanks for all my other newbie questions that 
>have been answered!~

Use your editor!  NN dumps you in the editor for a reason, so use it!

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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: tom@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Tom McCain)
Subject: Re: New user question??
Keywords: Marked/unmarked articles
Organization: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:06:29 GMT

okner@socrates.umd.edu (Benjamin Okner) writes:

: I am a fairly new nn reader and have gotten myself into a bind.  I read
: several articles in a newsgroup and then exited the nn reader.  I did not
: realized until the next login that the articles WOULD NOT be presented to
: me again.  I think there is a way to get them back (as long as they are
: still archived at my site) but cannot find it in the manual.

: Can someone out there tell me what to do to see these again, so I can save
: them as I should have done the first time around??   Thanx in advance.

If your in the reading mode go back to the menu "=".  Then hit a "G"
<return> <return> <return>.  At this point you can select articles
again. 

--tom
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: nestabro@nova.gmi.edu (Noel Estabrook)
Subject: New nn user questions
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:39:45 GMT

Greetings.  After spending much happy time using rn, I have now been put
on a machine using nn and lo and behold, things just don't work the same.

Couple of questions:

How do I search for a new newsgroup using only a keyword and then have it
added to my .newsrc?  In rn, you just use the 'l' (for look) command and
it gives you a list.  You can then 'g'o to whichever one you want.  The
closest I've found on nn is -mxX -sSubject all.  This just merges all
newsgroups with given subject into one, let's me read them and then doesn't
add them to my .newsrc.  What's worse, it doesn't even tell me what groups
I'm looking at!  This is very frustrating.

Also, how do I tell nn _not_ to search for new newsgroups every time I
invoke it?

I've gone through an nn manual, but it hasn't seemed to help.  Any
assistance would be greatly appreciated.

--
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Default save folder for folders ?
Originator: guckes@medusa
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:21:11 GMT

Whenever I weed out my folders "sentnews" and "posted" I usually
save info that I can use again to "sentnews.sav" and "posted.sav".
This requires that I hit "s" for saving and "^u" to restore the name of
the folder I last saved to as I do not know of a methos to select a
default save folder name for folders.

So - is it possible to assign a save folder name for folders in the init file ?
Or do I have to create some kind of macros ?

-- 
Sven@macro.impaired.com :)
From: mmaster@parnasus.dell.com (Michael Masterson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: unsubscribe ALL groups?
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:04:13 GMT
Organization: Dell Computer Co

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 'bout, (in vi) :%s/:.*$/!/

that'll unsubscribe all groups (after a nn -a0) then the person can
just wander through the .newsrc file and do a $r: for those groups they
like... it's a lot quicker.

cheers.

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From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Independent direction socks" Neilski)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Reading in text files to post
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:36:49 GMT
Reply-To: nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: University of Reading

emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend) writes:
>fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>>mhatz@nyx.cs.du.edu (Macs Suck!) writes:
>>>I have gotten a copy of the man pages and pored through the reference
>>>commands, but cannot figure out how to read in a text file I have written
>>Use your editor!  NN dumps you in the editor for a reason, so use it!
>Depends on the editor.  vi doesn't seem to allow it, which is why I switched
>to joe.

Try `:r file' sometime.

-- neilski
you could always rtfm, i suppose

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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: ashton@netcom.com (ashton)
Subject: Re: NN record file
Keywords: subscribe/unsubscribe
Organization: Crypt of Cthulhu
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:52:19 GMT

photo@theporch.raider.net writes:

>I would like to see a list of what groups I've subscribed to and which ones
>I've unsubscribed.  My nn manual says that's possible using the nn record
>file but I cannot figure out how to access it.  The manual says something
>about "directory ~/.nn".  Not being a Unix freak, what does that mean and
>what do I do to access this file?

A bunch o files are kept in the '.nn' directory, you can 'ls .nn'
to see their names. Most notable is the '.nn/init' file that has
start up info/variables in it ...
( the '~' mark means that you are sitting in your home directory)
but ... the answer that you want is
more .newsrc
which will show you a HUGE file semi-sorted of all kinds of strange groups
news.software.nn:        <- ':' means subscribed
alt.fan.rush-limbaugh!   <- '!' means unsubscribed

and you can change the ':'s and '!'s to un/subscribe

(p.s. learn 'cd .nn' to move into the directory and 'cd ..' to move back)


Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: mcgraw@zeeman.sunspot.noao.edu (Robert McGraw)
Subject: Re: 2 nn questions
Keywords: nn
Reply-To: mcgraw@zeeman.sunspot.noao.edu
Organization: National Solar Observatory/SP
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:39:07 GMT

sks[ -oe


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From: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: 2 nn questions
Date: 22 Jan 93 09:52:05 GMT

In <1993Jan19.113941.16862@black.toppoint.de> kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp) writes:

>nn expands the character "%" to the complete path of the
>current article in "!" style shell escapes. "!echo %" tells you
>the complete path to your article 

Well, when I type !echo %, it just flashes the path on the screen for 0.5sec
and then shows me a clear screen with just a ! prompt at the top.

My TERM is sun-cmd, if that is something to do with it.
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: New user question??
Originator: guckes@medusa
Keywords: Marked/unmarked articles
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:57:54 GMT

okner@socrates.umd.edu (Benjamin Okner) writes:

>I read several articles in a newsgroup and then exited the nn reader.
>I did not realized until the next login that the articles WOULD NOT
>be presented to me again.
>Can someone out there tell me what to do to see these again, so I can
>save them as I should have done the first time around?

The purpose of using NN is "NOT to read News" - or should I say
"NOT to read all these News AGAIN" ?!

Anyway, you can read News again if you go to the group again telling nn
that you want to read them all:

G		Goto	goto a newsgroup
<group>			enter the name of the group at the prompt
a		all	read all of the articles available

If the group you want to go to is the group you are currently reading
then you can simply use the <enter> key which tells nn to use the
current group.  Notice, however, that you will enter the next level and
that nn will not keep in mind what articles you read.

Sven :)
From: kwek@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Stephen Kwek)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Question about installing nn
Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:23:55 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: news
NNTP-Posting-Host: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu


I have a question about installing nn. At my site, we have two domain
A and B. To save diskspace, machines on domain B mounts the partition
/usr/local from domain A. When I install nn on /usr/local/bin, 
whenever I post a news from domain B, my posting will have the return
address username@(domain A) instead of username@(domain B). Is there
a way of solving this problem? Thanks.
From: wdevine@andrew.cea.pvamu.edu (William Devine II)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: problems with inews
Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:37:42 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.cea.pvamu.edu

How do i unselect all newsgroups?

william c devine ii
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: photo@theporch.raider.net
Subject: NN record file
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:45:51 GMT
Organization: MacInteresteds, Nashville's Macintosh User Group
Keywords: subscribe/unsubscribe

I would like to see a list of what groups I've subscribed to and which ones
I've unsubscribed.  My nn manual says that's possible using the nn record
file but I cannot figure out how to access it.  The manual says something
about "directory ~/.nn".  Not being a Unix freak, what does that mean and
what do I do to access this file?

-David Anderson
Nashville TN
photo@theporch.raider.net

Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: rsm@world.std.com (Robert Marlan)
Subject: printing
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:07:55 GMT

If i'm reading news and want to print a particular article that i'm 
reading directly to my ansi connected printer what command would I give.
any options to include all the headers?? thanks
bob

Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu (Sudarshan S. Chawathe)  
Subject: Auto-select based on (not(subject or author))?
Originator: chaw@Pluto.Stanford.EDU
X-Disclaimer: Blame it on the cat.
Keywords: help nn 
Reply-To: Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu (Sudarshan S. Chawathe)  
Fcc: log/outgoing
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:55:46 GMT

Is it possible to auto-select articles based on header lines other than
author and subject?   For e.g. it would be nice to be able to select on
one of the various headers in ClariNet articles...

Thanks,

-Chaw

_________________________________________________________________________
Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu                                         tat tvam asi

Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Display the number of mails received ?
Originator: guckes@medusa
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:59:33 GMT

Can nn display the number of mails in the mailbox ?
YES: How ?
NO:  Can you give me a macro that does something like
     "grep ^Sub mymailbox | wc -l"
     and gives this number as a message to nn ?

-- 
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: paulb@techbook.com (Paul Buder)
Subject: How to select all original articles?
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:47:53 GMT


I often like to select all and only the original articles in high
volume groups.  I've found no way to do this other than selecting them
one by one.  I've tried things like =^[^rR][^eE]    and   =^[^>]  
but they don't work.  Has anyone found a way to do this?
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: lma@dayton.Stanford.EDU (Larry Augustin)
Subject: Merged groups: Any way to see list of groups or article's real group?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:28:23 GMT


When reading merged groups nn displays only one of the group names.
I'd like to see a list of the group names, or I'd like to see some key
in each article line that indicates which of the groups it was from.

Any way to do either of these?

Thanks,

Larry
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: jlindqui@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Master, Donnie Most College of Acting, UIUC)
Subject: Changing default mailer to elm
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:04:52 GMT

I'd like to use the .nn/init file to change the default mailer from sendmail
to elm, which does not have an option like sendmail's "-t", to my knowledge.
Is there anyone out there who has accomplished this or has any ideas?


Thanks in advance!
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From: devine@pvhep.pvamu.edu (WILLIAM CHARLES DEVINE, II)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: nnmaster root problems
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:19 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pvhep.pvamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    


I'm having some problems installing the nn client on our system here.
I was given root access for a day to do it (i work for the system)
and i sinstalled it using root as the user and bin as the group.
I then changed the config .h file to reflect this.  I install it
and chown the files too root and gh...chgrp the files to bin group.
Now when i attempt to run nnmaster to just initiallize the database
(option INIT on inst program) it tells me that i have called 
nnmaster with the wrong priviledges.
I though root could do anything? It wouldn't run nnmaster at all.
When i compiled it on my local directory to error test it it worked
fine and is still running as i type.  But when root tries to run the
same program installed for it it worn't work.

any ideas?

william c devine ii

Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu (Sudarshan S. Chawathe)  
Subject: Help with consolidated menus
Originator: chaw@Pluto.Stanford.EDU
X-Disclaimer: Blame it on the cat.
Keywords: help nn menus
Reply-To: Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu (Sudarshan S. Chawathe)  
Fcc: log/outgoing
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:50:42 GMT

Q1.  How can one specify that consolidated menus should be used only if
there are >100 (say) articles in the group?

Q2. Some way to automatically open a subject when it's selected?

Thanks,

-Chaw

_________________________________________________________________________
Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu                                         tat tvam asi
From: fsh@csres.cs.reading.ac.uk ( Steve Han)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: zoological database
Summary: undergraduate project
Keywords: zoo, genetics, database
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:35:56 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


I had this request from an undergraduate from another department
seeking information on some zoological database.  Admittedly,
my knowledge in this area is limited (and confined to my last visit
to Chester Zoo aeons ago), and I am no zoologist or biologist by 
a long chalk (I'm in Computer Science :-)), and would appreciate 
any help from netters for this student.  As far as I can make out, 
all she wants is some zoological database concerning genetics 
information of animals, et al.   Any help would be welcome and 
acknowledged in this student's dissertation.

This may not be the appropriate newsgroup but swell, I cannot think
of any other relating to some zoological matters.  
All flames on unnecessary/unwarranted traffic > /dev/null 


Steve Han
University of Reading
England

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From: mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: LymeNet listserv group
Summary: New listserv group available
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:16:48 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

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