>>I noticed this, too. However, I never tried uploading my Souper95
>>.newsrc file to my shell account to run the trn/uqwk routine because I
>>was not sure if the article numbers in the PC .newsrc matched the ones
>>in the .newsrc file of my shell account.
>
> They should - the article numbers refer to the numbers on the
>server. (If they *don't* match something's probably broken with your
>ISP's news server).
Wow... I never knew this before now. I suppose that one can learn
something new every day. This must be an undocumented feature of
Souper, since, AFAIK, there is no mention of it in the doc file.
> Works like a charm. I generally read news online from my PC
>using slrn; when I visit my parents (who have a computer, a modem, and
>an Internet account) I upload my .newsrc to my shell account, telnet
>in, and read my news using my shell account; when I visit my in-laws
>(who have neither a computer, nor a modem) I use souper to fetch my
>news and read it when I return from vacation using Yarn. (If anybody
So, then, the .newsrc file that one uses for Souper is portable, and
compatible with the one in the home directory, right? Cool...:) Now
that I know this, I can see ways to synchronize the two processes, one
for times when I use Souper, and the other for the occasions when I run
my SOUP scripts or OLMenu in the shell.
Thanks a lot for posting this information. You seem to have answered
my questions, as well as Dirk's. This is (yet) another reason to like
Souper.
Debra Walker
-- Debra Walker debraw@wwa.com Chicago, IL