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1.1       root        1: .TH NEWSRC 5
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: newsrc \- information file for readnews(1) and checknews(1)
                      4: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      5: The
                      6: .I .newsrc
                      7: file contains the list of previously read articles and an optional
                      8: options line for
                      9: .IR readnews(1) " and " checknews(1).
                     10: Each newsgroup that articles
                     11: have been read from has a line of the form:
                     12: .LP
                     13: .I newsgroup: range
                     14: .LP
                     15: The
                     16: .I range
                     17: is a list of the articles read.  It is basically a list of no.'s
                     18: separated by commas with sequential no.'s collapsed with hyphens.
                     19: For instance:
                     20: .LP
                     21: .B general: 1-78,80,85-90
                     22: .br
                     23: .B fa.info-cpm: 1-7
                     24: .br
                     25: .B net.news: 1
                     26: .br
                     27: .B fa.info-vax! 1-5
                     28: .br
                     29: .LP
                     30: If the : is replaced with an ! (as in info-vax above) the newsgroup
                     31: is not subscribed to and will not be shown to the user.
                     32: .LP
                     33: An options line starts with the word
                     34: .B options
                     35: (left-justified).  Then there are the list of options just as they
                     36: would be on the command line.  For instance:
                     37: .LP
                     38: .B "options \-n all !fa.sf-lovers !fa.human-nets \-r"
                     39: .br
                     40: .B "options \-c \-r"
                     41: .LP
                     42: A string of lines beginning with a space or tab after the initial options
                     43: line will be considered continuation lines.
                     44: .SH FILES
                     45: .TP 25
                     46: ~/.newsrc
                     47: options and list of previously read articles
                     48: .SH SEE ALSO
                     49: readnews(1),
                     50: checknews(1)

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