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Many years ago, in my college days, I was exposed to the Usenet, a store-and-forward bulletin board system that ran on computers running Unix. Machines would call each other and transmit the day's posts. The groups were named and partitioned by subject matter. Needless to say, I spent many hours reading the Usenet news, or netnews for short. I'm quite sure my grades suffered as a result of my addiction to netnews. It wasn't fun quitting "cold turkey" after May 1988. But it was the right thing to do, and I haven't looked back.
I saved all the articles from the Star Trek and Doctor Who news groups onto a reel of magnetic tape, in groups of 50 articles. I just went to the spool directory, typed "more * > filename", and compressed the omnibus file.
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I saved all the articles from the Star Trek and Doctor Who news groups onto a reel of magnetic tape, in groups of 50 articles. I just went to the spool directory, typed "more * > filename", and compressed the omnibus file.
( The remaining steps. )
