Major trn problems
nick collision
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Major trn problems
Date: 22 Nov 1993 14:45:23 -0000
Message-ID: <2cqja3$1...@news.mantis.co.uk>
Organization: Mantis Consultants Ltd, Cambridge. UK.
In article <2cj5ps$d...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Robert T Korb <rk...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with trn that I have never seen or had before
>and I'm completely stumped. When I use the trn command, it lists the
>newsgroups I subscribe to and how many articles are unread just like it
>should. But after it lists them out I get a bunch of warning messages.
>
>Here's an example of one:
>
>Warning! Bogus Newsgroup: 5243,5245,5247-5255,5258-5263,5265-5272,5275-5281,5
Lemme guess -- you hand-edited your .newsrc, right?
The newsrc is a bunch of lines like
news.group.name 1,5-10,1004-3443
^
I'd guess you stuck a carriage return here. Probably your text editor
did it because the line was longer than 80 characters. Get a better
text editor.
mathew
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