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From: Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Create groups after moving nnml dirs?
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:57:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65t686am.fsf@random.localnet.unwireduniverse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84el7uazy6.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de's message of "Fri, 03 Jan 2003 18:46:41 +0100")

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Say I do "tar cfpj x.tbz Mail/foo" on one machine and then unpack it
> on another machine.  How do I tell Gnus about the new groups foo.bar
> and foo.quux?
>
> And I don't mean manually.  Actually, we're talking about more than
> 1,000 groups.  It's not fun to type G m for each of those!

How about something like this:

    M-x shell
    cd foo
    ls -1
    <copy result list to *scratch*>
    C-x b *scratch* RET
    M-<
    C-x (
    C-SPC
    C-E
    M-w
    C-x b *Group* RET
    G w foo.C-Y RET
    C-x b *scratch* RET
    C-a C-n
    C-x )
    C-u 10000 C-x e

Derrell



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-03 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-03 17:46 Kai Großjohann
2003-01-03 17:57 ` Derrell.Lipman [this message]
2003-01-03 18:17   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-03 20:19     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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