Very Computer

 I've been tring to customize my news and however helpful The Book is it
doesn't tell me where RNINIT is to be found. I know how to set the wanted
switches on the command line but I can't save it. FAQ didn't help either.

--
Rick Farmer
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332

[casbah:64] ~ -> grep RNINIT .bash_profile
RNINIT="-m -e -L -M"; export RNINIT

The same can easily be done for csh.

-tms

--
You can get further with a kind word | You can get further with a kind word
and a gun than a kind word alone.    | and a phaser than a kind word and a gun.
          --al capone                |           -- John Navarra

By using aliasing, you can create custom commands
to invoke rn in various ways.

Here is how I do it:

% grep rn .cshrc
alias humor     rn rec.humor
alias rn        rn -e -m +H -h +hsubject -r -q -d~

Now, you can read jokes by entering "humor".
You can have as many of these aliases as you like.

For non-specific news reading, simply typing "rn" will
do the trick.

(Note: When you list a newsgroup name in an "rn" command,
rn will read all the groups that start with that name.
For example, the command:

rn rec.humor

will read:

rec.humor
rec.humor.d
rec.humor.funny
rec.humor.oracle
rec.humor.oracle.d

You can control the order that these groups are read by
editing your .newsrc file.  You can also unsubscribe
to the groups you don't want.)

-- Harley Hahn