Copying between babyl files.

Copying between babyl files.

[Diagon]

Hi all.  I'm using gnus for mail.  In my nnbabyl+Inbox:mail.misc, which is my RMAIL file, I have 50 messages that I would like to copy to an nndoc+/<path/filename>:<filename> (also a babyl file).  I tried:

M P b

B c

The latter command wanted a location, so I gave it:

nndoc+/<path/filename>:<filename>

It responded:  "Couldn't copy article ####"

I can't even copy an individual article, though "o" (output) works fine.  Could someone let me know what I'm doing wrong?

/D

Re: Copying between babyl files.

[Andreas Schwab]

Diagon <gnu.org@niwas.net> writes:

> nndoc+/<path/filename>:<filename>

nndoc is a read-only backend.  If you want to copy to a babyl file you
should use the nnbabyl backend.

Andreas.

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Re: Copying between babyl files.

[Diagon]

---- On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 02:12:24 -0700 Andreas Schwab  wrote ---- 
>Diagon <gnu.org@niwas.net> writes: 
> 
>> nndoc+/<path/filename>:<filename> 
> 
>nndoc is a read-only backend. If you want to copy to a babyl file you 
>should use the nnbabyl backend. 

Andreas -  Thanks for your response.  Excuse the untutored questions, but:

(1) why does it work fine if I use "o" (gnus-summary-save-article), but fails using "B c" (gnus-summary-copy-article), even while in both cases I have used gnus-group-make-doc-group (see (2)).

(2) I am using "M-0 G f" (gnus-group-make-doc-group) to temporarily add the file I want to copy to.  (M-0 is to make sure it knows it's a babyl file.)  What is the alternative you are suggesting?

>Andreas. 

/D