Aduke.1546 net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!trt Fri Jan 1 23:15:52 1982 "before" option in news I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but the version of A news here has a new option, e.g. "news -b last month" specifies news "before" a month ago. It works somewhat like "-a". "news -a last month -b last week" works as expected. Anyway, to cancel old news: yes c | news -n ALL -b 2 weeks ago where "yes c" produces an infinite sequence of "c\n". Or the fancier: yes c | news -n net.jokes -b yesterday yes c | news -n fa net -b -2 weeks yes c | news -n ALL - month Perhaps B news should have "-b" as well. (Or does it already?). Tom Truscott (duke!trt) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.