Hi Jens,
what I do myself is run the following batch file everytime I subscribe
to a new newsgroup. It uses the DOS sort command, very simple but it
gets the job done :).
--- Cut here : beginning of sortyarn.bat
@ECHO OFF
IF NOT EXIST %HOME%\YARN\NEWSRC GOTO NONEWS
ECHO Creating backup file ...
COPY %HOME%\YARN\NEWSRC %TEMP% > NUL
COPY %YARN%\ACTIVE %TEMP% > NUL
ECHO Sorting news file ...
SORT < %HOME%\YARN\NEWSRC > %HOME%\YARN\NEWSRC.NEW
SORT < %YARN%\ACTIVE > %YARN%\ACTIVE.NEW
ECHO Removing old news file ...
DEL %HOME%\YARN\NEWSRC > NUL
DEL %YARN%\ACTIVE > NUL
ECHO Renaming new news file ...
REN %HOME%\YARN\NEWSRC.NEW NEWSRC > NUL
REN %YARN%\ACTIVE.NEW ACTIVE > NUL
GOTO EXIT
:NONEWS
ECHO Error sorting news file. The news file was not found in your
ECHO Yarn home-directory (%HOME%\YARN).
ECHO.
:EXIT
--- Cut here : end of sortyarn.bat
Regards
Frank
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