Some newsgroups seems to have a ' in their name, thus tokenize(..) is not appropriate. Reference: /n/sources/patch/applied/nntpfs-groups Date: Mon Nov 15 14:15:20 CET 2004 --- /sys/src/cmd/nntpfs.c Mon Nov 15 14:15:20 2004 +++ /sys/src/cmd/nntpfs.c Mon Nov 15 14:15:20 2004 @@ -541,7 +541,8 @@ while(p = Nrdline(n)){ if(strcmp(p, ".")==0) break; - nf = tokenize(p, f, nelem(f)); + + nf = getfields(p, f, nelem(f),1,"\t\r\n "); if(nf != 4){ int i; for(i=0; i