On Wed, 22 May 2002, Larry W. Virden wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:35:48AM -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote: > > You mean like "s foo.bax"? (instead of foo.bar) > > No, like `/stuff instead of ~/stuff - and remember, I said there were > large numbers of articles - sometimes several dozen or more... Not much of consolation for you, but at least you can alleviate the pain by letting trn know in advance whether you prefer mailbox or normal file format for saved articles. Invoke trn with option -M or -N, or go to the Options screen and set Default Savefile Type at the "Save Options" menu to something different from "ask", and you won't need to press "q" every time trn asks you for the format of the file. On Wed, 22 May 2002, David Combs wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:35:48AM -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote: > > > (the same problem exists when getting into the mode of being asked whether > > I want to subscribe to new newsgroups - if it turns out that 300 newsgroups > > were created over night, I'm stuck answering all these prompts). This also can be alleviated. Hitting "Q" at the "ADD newsgroups" screen makes trn skip all the newly created newsgroups and go right to your subscribed groups. You may also either invoke trn with option -q, or specify "Add Groups = no/manual" in the the ~/.trn/access file for the appropriate news source entry. I personally use this last setting because our news server has a Y2K bug that causes it to present all the existing newsgroups as new. Another possibility is setting the env variable AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE and/or AUTOSUBSCRIBE for some patterns of newsgroup names you would/wouldn't want to subscribe automagically. If you ever want to check what is new in the full newsgroup list, you can do it from trn (command "\l [pattern]" at the Newsgroups selection screen) or by the external program "newsgroups" which is distributed along with trn. Command "\a [pattern]" brings you back to the "ADD newsgroups" screen where you can choose newsgroups to add at your will. > I say "trn -p", and when I get into it, the first > thing might be a list of newsgroups (newly available > at my isp) (oh, I use a shell acct), eg 30 new > groups from M$, *none* of which I care one iota about, > so I simply hit <return>, and poof, my normal screen > of subscribed-to groups comes up. Something that I don't understand. AFAIK, the option -p is for automatic selection of the user's own postings, isn't it? > > I'd love to find some way to tell trn, when its asking me a question, > > 'PLEASE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW and return to the state right > > before the questions began' Me too... :( -- Regards, | /^^^\ Yury | (| , , |) | | * | E-mail: yury.burkatovsky at telrad dot co dot il | \_-_/ _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm
