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- From: jeroen@let.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder)
- Subject: Re: NewsWatcher Help?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.122328.28647@let.ruu.nl>
- X-Preferred-Newsreader: NewsWatcher (of course)
- Reply-To: Jeroen.Scheerder@let.ruu.nl
- Organization: Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- References: <HURH-210193183910@131.225.123.13> <lsr-220193101128@lsr.taligent.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:23:28 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In <lsr-220193101128@lsr.taligent.com> lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
-
- >In article <HURH-210193183910@131.225.123.13>, HURH@FNAL.FNAL.GOV (Patrick
- >Hurh) wrote:
- >>
- >> seem to be available...is there a user manual for this app?
-
- >The "offical" place to get NewsWatcher is ftp.acns.nwu.edu in
- >/pub/newsatcher. John Norstad has been doing most of the work on the
- >program and I think he has some documentation there.
-
- But beware, as we write the stuff there is in an early stage of
- development.
-
- >> 1) Is there a way to keep articles read from 'disappearing' from the
- >> newsgroup directory window? In other words if I open up a newsgroup with 5
-
- >No. An article is either read or unread. Once read, NewsWatcher doesn't
- >show it to you again.
-
- Well... you can go to the Full Group List, select the group you want
- to re-read read articles in and 'Mark Unread'. Open the group...
- voila.
-
- >But the documents it saves contain text-only, and you can edit them to make
- >an article unread if you know its article number.
-
- In fact, it saves .newsrc format: group name, ':' for subscribed
- groups, '!' for unsubscribed groups, followed by a list of read
- article numbers. No article numbers? Nothing read...
-
- Mind you, if you make mistakes and goof up the file format newsreaders
- are prone to crash.
-
- Cheers, Jeroen.
-