From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60572 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: backing up read messages, and subscribed lists. Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:44:50 -0400 Message-ID: <81k6jsxblp.fsf@adboyd.com> References: <813bqivjvo.fsf@adboyd.com> <4nackojd23.fsf@lifelogs.com> <81oe94xe9a.fsf@adboyd.com> <4n3bqghvtg.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121446194 30111 80.91.229.2 (15 Jul 2005 16:49:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9100@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 15 18:49:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtTN8-0002O6-DM for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:49:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DtTKM-0005ef-00; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DtTKE-0005eZ-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:46:10 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DtTKC-00083U-Qr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:46:08 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DtTKB-0001DJ-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:46:07 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DtTJm-0001z5-Jq for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:45:42 +0200 Original-Received: from rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com ([67.78.201.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:45:42 +0200 Original-Received: from david by rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:45:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:33XKP4qbJ0SjnKXw8oKGcDSJ9eA= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60572 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60572 "Ted Zlatanov" 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