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- Path: news.lyseo.otol.fi!calvin!not-for-mail
- From: aalto@lyseo.otol.fi (Lauri Aalto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Tin
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 14:21:53 GMT
- Organization: large
- Message-ID: <4eao21$8g4@hobbes.lyseo.otol.fi>
- References: <4e7hhr$mfl@mars.cyberspc.mb.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.lyseo.otol.fi
- X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]
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- Gary Stimpson (gstimp@cyberspc.mb.ca) wrote:
- > Is there anyway I can stop Tin from downloading my providers WHOLE
- > newsgroup file when I run it? It takes forever.
-
- tin -qn downloads the active file entries only for the newsgroups in your
- .newsrc and also does not make it check for new newsgroups. Do a grep -v
- \! on the .newsrc file first to get rid of all unsubscribed groups in the
- file.
-
- --
- Lauri Aalto <aalto@iki.fi> --- http://www.iki.fi/aalto/
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