rn help needed

Gunda O'Neal ESCO

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Apr 19, 1990, 11:37:43 AM4/19/90

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Running "rn"
Situation: Newsgroup all read, 0 left.
Stupid me forgot to write down an address needed.

HOW do I get back into this group ?

Thanks for help !

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Steven King

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Apr 20, 1990, 9:27:59 AM4/20/90

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In article <6...@cbmehq.UUCP> gu...@cbmehq.UUCP (Gunda O'Neal ESCO) writes:
>Running "rn"
>Situation: Newsgroup all read, 0 left.
>Stupid me forgot to write down an address needed.
>
>HOW do I get back into this group ?

RTFM. But in the meantime, type

g newsgroup.i.want.to.read
******** 0 unread articles in newsgroup.i.want.to.read--read now? [ynq]

Answer "y", natch.

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Sandra Jessica Smyth

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Apr 20, 1990, 11:43:42 AM4/20/90

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In article <24...@grape3.UUCP> ki...@motcid.UUCP (Steven King) writes:

: In article <6...@cbmehq.UUCP> gu...@cbmehq.UUCP (Gunda O'Neal ESCO) writes:
: >Running "rn"
: >Situation: Newsgroup all read, 0 left.
: >Stupid me forgot to write down an address needed.
: >
: >HOW do I get back into this group ?
:
: RTFM. But in the meantime, type
:
: g newsgroup.i.want.to.read
: ******** 0 unread articles in newsgroup.i.want.to.read--read now? [ynq]
:
: Answer "y", natch.

:

Don't you hate it when people suggest you RTFM and then give advice
that doesn't seem to work. Did you actually try this in rn? It
certainly doesn't work in our version of rn. A 'y' response returns

End of newsgroup

Rather, at the prompt, if you know the article you want, type a period
and an article number, such as in the following example. This will get
you into the news group and then you will need to use the "m"
command to mark articles as unread.

**** 0 unread articles in news.whatever--read now? [ynq] .1802

Alternately, at the prompt you can give the m command to "unread"
lots of articles. For example:

**** 0 unread articles in news.whatever--read now? [ynq] .1802-.1899 m

Just remember the period.
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Rob J. Nauta

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Apr 20, 1990, 12:38:05 PM4/20/90

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Hello Sandra

The method posted earlier does work, if you read everything, you can
go back to the newsgroup. on the question
0 unread article in xx.xx --read now [ynq] ?
answer 'y'. r will say 'End of newsgroup'. At this point you can
type 'P' succesively to go back to read articles, or you can make all
articles unread by typing 1,$m

Greetings, Rob

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ANNE CAPEHART

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Apr 22, 1990, 3:00:24 PM4/22/90

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In article <24...@grape3.UUCP> ki...@motcid.UUCP (Steven King) writes:

>In article <6...@cbmehq.UUCP> gu...@cbmehq.UUCP (Gunda O'Neal ESCO) writes:
>>Running "rn"

>RTFM. But in the meantime, type
>

and, for those who want to know what it said:

**From: g...@ocf.berkeley.edu
rtfm(l) UNIX Programmer's Manual rtfm(l)

NAME
rtfm - read the fucking manual

SYNOPSIS
rtfm

OPTIONS
None, you have to read the manual for an answer.

DESCRIPTION
Used when lazy people ask stupid questions. Normaly cried
out in vain.

FILES
/dev/null

ENVIRONMENT
Any.