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NNTIDY(1)		     General Commands Manual		       NNTIDY(1)

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  se-
	    quence  defined  in the init file.	If one or more groups are speci-
	    fied 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 se-
	    quence, 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 re-
	    sult is not written back to disk.  This can be used with the -v  op-
	    tion 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@texas.dk

4th Berkeley Distribution	   Release 6.6			       NNTIDY(1)

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