Re: new marks code is breaking a pre_marks setup

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>>
>> With the new marks code, you can move a directory like
>> ~/Mail/mail/misc from one machine to the other and the marks will go
>> along. Or you can save some of your mail groups on CD and then access
>> them later on, keeping all the marks and stuff.
>>
>> Previously, all the marks were in .newsrc.eld, and it wasn't easy to
>> back up only that part of it which was relevant to a specific group.
> 
> Cool. So SOUP is not really necessary anymore (not to mention that I
> never got it to work), or its function could change to only compress
> the stuff...

Actually, there are presumably still a few die-hard Fido Technology
Network users out there who use SOUP for access to Internet email and
all; I know that I did for a while when I was dealing primarily with FTN
mail...

...and SOUP keeps that information it's own way and interoperates with
other tools that speak it.[1] :)

        Daniel


Footnotes: 
[1]  Well, I know of three -- the SOUP packager I had, GoldEd and Gnus. :)

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