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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro=DFjohann) 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