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OCR: NewsWatcher 2.0 Appendix D Working with UNIX Newsreaders You may wish to SWI itch from using a UNIX newsreader to using News sWatcher (or vice versa) Some people may even like to use both kinds of newsreaders Both News Watcher and the UNIX newsreaders keep track of your subscribed groups, and which articl les in these groups you have read In UNIX, this is called your .newsre' file With News Watcher, this is your user group list. The Get Group List from Hostommand in thSpecial I menu transfers a .newsrc file from UNIX host to your Mac and conv verts if into News Watcher user group list window NewsWatcher presents remote host dialog which asks you to supply the UNIX host address, your username, your password, and the path name of your .newsrc file When the .new vsrc file has been retrieved t ...