How to "Save" a Newsgroup Posting

How to "Save" a Newsgroup Posting How to "Save" a Newsgroup Posting

by Richard D Holowczak


>From: holowcza@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Richard D Holowczak)
>Newsgroups: ru.newark.gsm.database
>Subject: How to "Save" a Newsgroup Posting
>Date: 9 Apr 1995 13:36:25 -0400
>Organization: Rutgers University

To "Save" your own copy of a posting, use the "Save" function of the nn program. While you are looking at the article subjects, press a capital "S". You will be prompted for a file name which probably defaults to something like:

~/ru/newark/gsm/database

Backspace over this whole thing and type in the name of a file, say "homesol.txt".

You will be prompted to create the file (if it does not already exist).

Then press the letter of the article (or articles) you wish to have saved into the file. Pressing more than one letter will append that article to the file. When you are done, just press Enter instead of a letter.

When you get out of nn the file "homesol.txt" will contain all of the articles you just saved to it. This should be an ASCII file that you can edit with EMACS or VI, or you can download this and print it, etc.

Rich H.