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NAME
       nntidy - tidy your personal .newsrc file

SYNOPSIS
       nntidy [ -aciNQrsuv ]  [ group ]...

DESCRIPTION
       nntidy will clean out non-existing groups, adjust obviously wrong article numbers, and remove
       badly formed lines from your .newsrc file.

       It may optionally remove ignored groups, unsubscribed groups, and groups which are  not  part
       of your presentation sequence or the groups specified on the command line.

       You should run nntidy if your rc file has been corrupted for some reason.

OPTIONS
       -a     Equivalent to -cisu.

       -c     Remove  unrecognized  lines.   This  will  also remove the `options' line used by some
              older news readers, such as readnews(1)

       -i     Remove entries for groups which are ignored in the database, e.g.  entries marked with
              `X' in the GROUPS file.

       -r     Remove entries for unsubscribed groups.

       -s     Remove  entries  which  are not included in the group presentation sequence defined in
              the init file.  If one or more groups are specified on the command line,  entries  not
              matched by these groups (and their subgroups etc) will be removed.
              Notice  that  depending on how you construct the presentation sequence, this may cause
              unsubscribed groups to be removed from .newsrc, but this will not normally happen.

       -u     Truncate entries for unsubscribed groups, by removing the article numbers and  leaving
              only the news group name and the `!' mark.

       -v     Verbose operation.  Reports each change made to the .newsrc file.

       -N     No update mode.  The requested operations are performed, but the result is not written
              back to disk.  This can be used with the -v option to see whether tidying is required.

       -Q     Quiet operation.  The version information is not printed.

FILES
       ~/.newsrc        The record of read articles
       ~/.newsrc.tidy   The original rc file before tidy

SEE ALSO
       nn(1), nncheck(1), nngoback(1), nngrab(1), nngrep(1), nnpost(1)
       nnadmin(1M), nnusage(1M), nnmaster(8)

AUTHOR
       Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
       E-mail: storm AT texas.dk





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