term% cat index.txt NEWSRC(5) File Formats Manual NEWSRC(5)
NAME
newsrc - information file for readnews
DESCRIPTION
The .newsrc file contains the list of previously read articles and an
optional options line for readnews(1). Each newsgroup that articles
have been read from has a line of the form:
newsgroup: range
The range is a list of the articles read. It is basically a list of
no.'s separated by commas with sequential no.'s collapsed with hyphens.
For instance:
general: 1-78,80,85-90
fa.info-cpm: 1-7
net.news: 1
fa.info-vax! 1-5
If the : is replaced with an ! (as in info-vax above) the newsgroup is
not subscribed to and will not be shown to the user.
An options line starts with the word options (left-justified). Then
there are the list of options just as they would be on the command
line. For instance:
options -n all !fa.sf-lovers !fa.human-nets -r
options -c -r
A string of lines beginning with a space or tab after the initial op‐
tions line will be considered continuation lines.
FILES
~/.newsrc options and list of previously read articles
SEE ALSO
readnews(1), checknews(1)
NEWSRC(5)