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2002.03.13 Newsgroup Article Numbers Reset

For those who haven't noticed yet, the article numbers have been reset on the news server. You will have to mark all articles as unread in your news reader, or edit your .newsrc file to remove everything after the : (colon) on each line. In Tin you can use "^R" to mark all articles unread. In slrn "esc u" does the trick on each newsgroup. There doesn't seem to be such a command for trn. Finally, if you want, here is a one-liner command you could run in your home directory which will reset your newsrc file. (The following will appear wrapped but should be all one line). If you use this, backup your .newsrc file first in case something goes wrong. python -c "import re; fn='.newsrc'; f=re.sub(r'([:!])\s.*','\\\1\x20',open(fn).read()); open(fn,'w').write(f)"