Contributors: Nancy McGough <nancym@ii.com>,
        Peter J. Kappesser <Peter_Kappesser@promail.com>,
        Tim Pierce <twpierce@quads.uchicago.edu>
        Steven King, Software Archaeologist <king@wildebeest.cig.mot.com>

At the newsgroup selection level just type:

  /string

and it will prompt you with the next newsgroup in your .newsrc that
contains "string", which can contain wildcards like filenames. So,
"/long*name" would go to the first group that matched that pattern.
Unlike filename globbing, the pattern is not anchored: e.g., "/fur" will
find "alt.fan.furry." You may use ^ or $ to anchor to the front or back
of the string, such as "/^misc" to find a group in the misc.* hierarchy
but avoid any *.*.misc groups.

If you want to read several groups matching the same pattern, use the
"o" command, e.g. "o ^rec" to see only the rec.* groups in your .newsrc.
To get back to normal operation and read other groups, type "o" alone;
the restriction is automatically removed when there are no articles left
in the matching set of newsgroups.

Trn also has a "fuzzy" newsgroup name-matching option. If you can
remember something close to the newsgroup name, trn will figure it out.
This is activated with the -G option in your .trninit file, or set from
the command line with &-G. It does make name matching a bit slower, so
it's not on by default.


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