Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!elbereth!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp5!brahms
From: brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Old to New group name convertor
Message-ID: 
Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 19:11:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: spp5.346
Posted: Sat Oct 18 19:11:31 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 06:29:44 EDT
References: 
Reply-To: brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
Lines: 17

In article  liberte@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Updating your .newrc or (in my case .notesrc) files listing your
>oft read net groups can be tiring.  So here is an aid to automatic
>conversion.

Am I missing something or is there a major problem with old2new?  Namely,
the new news groups article numbering starts back at 1, not where the old
group left off.  Therefore, you would still have to edit you .newsrc file
to modify all the numbering.  Of course, if you run rn, then I don't see
this as a problem since rn will add groups to the .newsrc file for you
whereever you want them to go.  Then, when all the transition is done, it
would be easy to delete all of all the or net groups entries.

			-- Brad Brahms
			   usenet: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms
			   arpa:   Brahms@usc-eclc