Kent Covert wrote:
 
...snippety-snip...
> Also, I haven't found a way in Pine to view all of the newsgroups.  Pine
> seems to be smart enough to read the regular NEWS program NEWSRC. file to
> get the name of the newsgroups you've registered to, but once you delete
> it, that's no longer works.  You can add them one by one by name, but I
> can't see anyway to get a list of all of them.
>
> --
>                                      Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
>                                      Miami Computing and Information Services
>                                      Miami University, Oxford, OH
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From Pine's main menu, choose FOLDER LIST.  Scoot down to your News-collection,
and then hit A to add a group.  From there, you can either hit CTRL-T, or enter
just an asterisk and then hit CTRL-X, to view a list of all groups.  Then move
to the group to which you want to subscribe, and hit S.
 
The cool part is that if you knew you wanted something in comp.os, but you
weren't sure which group you wanted, you could hit A to add, and then type
comp.os.*, and then hit CTRL-X to view all matching groups.  Pretty cool.
 
The not-so-cool part is that if you had Pine 3.95, at the list of all groups or
all matching groups, you could hit L to go into list mode, and then mark with
an X multiple groups to be added, and then press S when you were done.  This
would eliminate the need to keep going back and forth between the folder list
and the list of groups.
 
For now, if you want to add a bunch of groups at once, stick with the regular
NEWS program on MiaVX1.
 
Clayton L. Hines
 
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