Aihnss.896 net.news.b utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!eagle!ihnss!dafa Fri Dec 18 23:29:39 1981 Updating options listjoke.all It would be nice to be able to update the options list in .newsrc while reading news (by escaping to the shell and using an editor). However, when readnews quits, it writes over the options list in .newsrc wiping out any changes that have been made to it. Thus one must exit readnews before updating the options list. I find this annoying, especially since I find myself cancelling new newsgroups almost every time I read the news. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.