slrn question

[Janina Sajka]

Hey, Toby:

I did unsubscribe all (with the asterisk) as you suggest. I still can't 
locate the ones I want, though. I've tried both slash and Control-Cap-L as 
you suggest. It just beeps and says "not found." I would sure hate to have 
to arrow down through this 32k line list one line at a time! <grin>

I tried something else. I did some rearranging of .jnewsrc in nano. I 
moved a few lines to the top, representing some of the usents I want to 
read. Guess what, slrn ignores that and starts just were it wants to.

Still confused.
 On 
Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> uOn Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > I need some help using slrn to read particular news groups. The groups are
> > present in my .jnewsrc file, I can find them with grep. But, when I use
> > the slash to ask for them on slrn's main screen--the one that starts at
> > the top of my .jnewsrc file--it just beeps and says "not found."
> >
> > What's up with this?
> 
> Have you subscribed to them?  If so, they should be listed, and once SLRN
> starts, reading the current line should yield the first in the list, onto
> which you can press enter, that is, of course, after you've unsubbed from
> the defaults like alt.test etc.  I normally do an unsub from * before
> subscribing to anything.
> 
> The other thing, if you don't want to subscribe, then use control cap L to
> enter your search pattern, / is for intra-article searching.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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