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 > > -- 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 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
