Re: backing up read messages, and subscribed lists.

[david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> It should be enough to copy newsrc.eld, it has all the marks and
> read/unread information I believe.  The problem is that it has all the
> other data you may not want to copy as well: gnus-server-alist,
> gnus-killed-list, gnus-topic-topology, gnus-topic-alist,
> gnus-format-specs, etc.  So unless your home setup is exactly like
> your work setup, it will probably not work.  What may work is to
> extract the line(s) for the group(s) of interest and copy those over,
> but the server names and group names have to match.

Well, my at home setup and at work setup are identical, as they are both based
on Cygwin, and running under Windows XP, using the latest cvs version of
emacs, and the gnus that comes with it. So, I do want all the info that
newsrc.eld contains.

It's no problem at all to set up a script that sends over my newsrc.eld right
at the end of the work day, and retrieves it from home at the beginning of the
work day.

Thanks for the info, and the effort!

Dave