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- Here is a little utility that I hope others will find as useful as I
- have. Ever since I started to read the net, I have wanted a means to
- determine how much news is waiting for me before I dive into it. When
- the "wn" program came across net.sources a couple months ago, I thought
- my problem was solved. Unfortunately, that program didn't do what I
- wanted; I am not interested in knowing all of the unread news on the
- system but only the news groups that I read. Consequently I decided to
- write "newscnt."
-
- Newscnt makes use of your .newsrc file and the system's
- /usr/lib/news/active file to determine your unread news in much the
- same way that readnews or vnews does. It looks at your "option" line
- in .newsrc to determine the news groups that interest you and then
- build the structures it needs to count your unread articles. By
- default, newscnt only returns a total, but with the "-a" option it will
- give you a breakdown by newsgroup. A manual page is included that
- describes all the bells and whistles.
-
- Newscnt uses the "scanargs" argument parser that was distributed quite
- some time ago on this net. I have included a copy in this distribution
- for those who don't have one.
-
- Any bug reports, suggestions for improvement, other complaints or even
- praise should be sent to:
- Glen A. Taylor
- ihnp4!inuxd!gat
- AT&T (Consumer Products Division)
- P.O. Box 1008
- Indianapolis, IN 46206 (317) 845-3709
-