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- From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
- Subject: Re: VI - Line too Long - What can be done?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.011636.23180@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
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- Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:16:36 GMT
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- drdowns@bach.udel.edu (David R. Downs)
- writes on comp.editors:
-
- ) I was wondering if there is a way to edit a file which gives the "Line Too
- ) Long" error message. The file in question is my .newsrc - not a Binary,
- ) etc.
-
- This helps if you have ?rn as your newsreader. Those long .newsrc
- lines are due to Xref or your explicitly marked articles etc. The
- solution is to do a catchup on those groups or junk the intermediate
- articles so that ?rn will do intermediate catchups. Then those lines
- can be manageable. The trick is to view them using the 'L' command in
- the newsgroup selection mode in ?rn.
-
- ) I seem to remember this question coming up before, but I don't recall seeing
- ) its answer.
-
- I think some people posted scripts for long .newsrc lines in
- news.software.readers (if I am not mistaken). Bruce Becker is the
- only name that I remember. :-)
-
- ) David
-
- Sridhar.
-