This one newsgroup, a *huge* one, somehow got its 1st 50 pages-worth of threads marked "*" (and that with one thread per line display-style). I tried ":m", thinking that that would, for every marked thread, execute "m" (mark unread) on it. Nope. Suggestions? NOTE: not *every* thread got marked, just every single one for the first n pages of threads (too many to page through), whereas at the final page, *no* threads are marked, ditto for going backwards through the threads, until you get tired of working through the pages in *that* (reverse) direction. Like I say, there's *lots* of threads (group is Microsoft.public.excel.programming), not sure how it would take to page through the one-line-per-thread pages until you came to where you ran out of marked ones and began the yet-unmarked ones. Again, any suggestions? -------------- By the way, how does trn work, in that it remembers these marks. Just *where* and *how* are those already-read vs not-yet-read facts kept? Is that file human-readible (sp?), understandable (by novices?)? What do you have to read to understand these subdirectories that trn seems to create under News? What files in the sources? Or someone's personal notes on how things work, perhaps? ---= Oh, I eventually tried removing, from .newsrc, all the article-numbers for that newsgroup, before which I had exited trn. I sure expected that to have an effect -- but when I again ran trn, all those thousands and thousands of threads were *still* marked. Can anyone explain some of this? THANKS! David Combs ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf
