Re: SLRN woes

[Victor Torrico <vtorrico@cfw.com>]

Quoting Anthony Campbell <acampbell@achc.demon.co.uk>:
> 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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