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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@texas.dk