Wayne Davison <trn@clari.net>,
        Leanne Phillips <felan@netcom.com>
        [Adapted from the rn KILL file FAQ and HINTS.TRN]

By default trn saves killfiles for each newsgroup in a file named KILL
in a subdirectory built from the name of the newsgroup, e.g.
~/News/news/software/readers/KILL. It is possible to change the
locations of your KILL files, by setting the environment variables
KILLGLOBAL and KILLLOCAL.  The most popular method is to put all the
files in one directory using the group name as the file name:

	KILLLOCAL="%p/Kill/%C"
        KILLGLOBAL="%p/Kill/Global"

Where %p is your news directory, usually ~/News, and %C is the full
name of the group, like sci.bio.  This means the kill file for sci.bio
is in ~/News/Kill/sci.bio instead of ~/News/sci/bio/KILL.  Think about
this next time you subscribe to alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork :-) The
global kill file is in the same directory, with the name "Global".

Note that you need a file system that allows long file names to make
this work.


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