NEWSRC(5) NEWSRC(5)
NAME
newsrc - information file for readnews
DESCRIPTION
The .newsrc file contains the list of previously read arti-
cles and an optional options line for readnews(1). Each
newsgroup that articles have been read from has a line of
the form:
newsgroup: range
The range is a list of the articles read. It is basically a
list of no.'s separated by commas with sequential no.'s col-
lapsed with hyphens. For instance:
general: 1-78,80,85-90
fa.info-cpm: 1-7
net.news: 1
fa.info-vax! 1-5
If the : is replaced with an ! (as in info-vax above) the
newsgroup is not subscribed to and will not be shown to the
user.
An options line starts with the word options (left-
justified). Then there are the list of options just as they
would be on the command line. For instance:
options -n all !fa.sf-lovers !fa.human-nets -r
options -c -r
A string of lines beginning with a space or tab after the
initial options line will be considered continuation lines.
FILES
~/.newsrc options and list of previously read
articles
SEE ALSO
readnews(1), checknews(1)