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Finding That Newsgroup on CMS
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Finding your way around the almost 3,500 (and growing!) Usenet/Netnews newsgroups
the Computer Center carries can be daunting. Don't dismay. The "newsreaders"
on CMS and on the ADN UNIX systems provide many ways to help you find the groups
that particularly interest you and to avoid the groups that you particularly
don't want to see.
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Getting started using Netnews on CMS
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On CMS, enter the command: netnews
This is too easy, perhaps, because you ll be presented with the first
screen of a list of almost 3500 newsgroups. Once you find a newsgroup you're
interested in (press F7 or F8 to move up or down in the list),
use Tab, Up, or Down to move your cursor to point
to it, and press F11 to display it.
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Finding interesting groups in the whole list
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The netnews command on CMS uses XEDIT to display the list of newsgroups
(and the list of articles when you are browsing a group); you can use the XEDIT
locating commands to help find specific newsgroups.
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The ALL command
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For example, to see all the lists about WordPerfect, you could enter: all
/wp/ on the command line at the bottom of the Netnews screen. Sometimes,
you will have to experiment a bit to find all the groups you'd be interested
in. Say that you're a C programmer. You might first try using all /c/
to search for groups on the C language. That will display all groups with
a "c" or "C" in their name; this will not cut the choices down by much!
But all /lang./ would help; it displays all the "language" groups,
including those on C. To redisplay the entire list, enter: all
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The LOCATE command
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Perhaps you just want to go to the beginning of the local UIC groups; for this,
used the XEDIT command locate. To find the first occurrence of "uic" in
the list of group names, enter: /uic./ on the command line at the bottom
of the screen. (Including the period with the "uic" ensures that you'll skip the
newsgroups that just happens to have "uic" in their name.)
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Limiting the list of groups Netnews displays
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Excluding groups: Make a list of the names of the groups that you
never want to see, one name per line, and save it in a CMS file with the
fileid excluded groups. Netnews will not display these groups unless
you tell it to. There's a function key in Netnews that you can use to add
or delete a group from your excluded groups file.
Including groups: Similarly, you can gather the names of groups
that interest you in a CMS file, and ask Netnews to display only those
groups. The default fileid of this file is included groups, but
you may have as many files as you wish, each with a different filename.
For example, you could have the names of the newsgroups about the C programming
language listed in a file named c groups. Then, to see only these
groups, enter:
netnews include c
Don't always "include", you'll miss seeing the new groups that are added
regularly.
Netnews Tip: Netnews on CMS does not display the
articles in a group by "threads" like tin and trn on UNIX, but you can get something
like it with F7, "SortSubj", which sorts the group's articles by subject. |
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