>Look through your .newsrc file for broken number sequences (usually
>caused by overlong lines and extraneous newlines). Even a single such
>error will provoke a fatal Segmentation Fault as uqwk reads it.
>If you find any bad lines, edit the file "by hand," to put every newsgroup
>on its own single line and to patch any ill-formatted sequences (like
>"1-3029,-3033"; you'll have to decide how you want that to read, in order
>not to miss, nor re-collect, too many articles). Be sure to keep wordwrap
>off, and go back through the file before saving to make sure your editor
>didn't sneak some errors back in. (Pico fights long lines but can be
>outsmarted, chiefly but not only by invoking it with wrap off.)
To invoke pico with wordwrap off, use the -w switch. If you have job control,
invoke it with -z to enable suspension.
But, even with the -w, pico will wrap very long longs. WATCH FOR THE MESSAGE on
the bottom of the screen that says "long lines wrapped". If you see that, exit
immediately; it won't change the file as long as "modified" isn't displayed in
the upper write-hand corner. Use another editor that can handle longer lines,
like vi. In the case of ridiculously long lines, use emacs.