Quoting Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 15 Feb 1999q, Victor Torrico wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Using the latest potato version of SLRN. No matter which news server I use,
> > when I do a slrn -create, it only creates a tiny version of the entire news
> > list into ~/.jnewsrc_XXX. How do I get the full list from the news server?
> >
> > slrn -d works fine. slrn_getdescs works fine.
> >
> > Perplexing.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Victor
> >
>
> It's not peculiar to the potato version. I get the same thing in hamm. I've
> had to download the "active" file separately and abstract the entries I
> need.
>
> Anthony
>
It turned out to be a setting in the .slrnrc file.
% If 0, save all groups when writing newsrc file
% if 1, do not save any unsubscribed groups
% if 2, do not save any unread-unsubscribed groups
set write_newsrc_flags 1
The original setting is as shown above. I changed it to:
set write_newsrc_flags 0 to cure the problem. Cockpit error on my part.
Victor
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