> Yarn's newsrc (which is NOT compatible with a shell account .newsrc) has
> CR-LF terminated lines. I don't know if this is also true of Soupers.
> If it is, they should be changed to just LFs to use them on the shell
> account, since at least some programs will have problems with the CRs.
An easy way to make the translation, if you are zapping files around, is
to use a zmodem transfer and use the -a option. That will do the CR/LF
translation for unix to PC and PC to unix.
-a stands for ascii transfer.
> You could initiate a PPP connection, transfer your Souper newsrc to your
> shell account via http or ftp, run trnkill via telnet, transfer .newsrc
> back to your PC, and then run souper to collect news. :)
grep : .newsrc > news.rc
mv .newsrc newsrc.old
mv news.rc .newsrc
will strip all unsubscribed newsgroups out of your .newsrc. This is
particularly useful if you use a .newsrc editor like 'eep' to shuffle
newsgroups around. Eep writes all available newsgroups into your
.newsrc file. You can use grep to strip them right back out.
-- Larry