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From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: .newsrc.eld should have one newline per group
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:55:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763zfe3ke.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873auktzlo.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>

I swear yesterday,
j> $ wc .newsrc.eld
j>     13  44047 859072 .newsrc.eld
But today
       13   72252 1626238 .newsrc.eld

Thats' right, somehow the palpitating blob of a file doubled in size
overnight. Let's say we are curious about our sudden weight gain and
wish to take a look and see what part suddenly swelled up.

Even supposing that there was a backup kept, one couldn't use plain
diff(1) to find what group is causing the trouble, due to lack of
newlines.

As the blob of a file is almost as useless as a proprietary binary
format, it will be tough to find out why the file has doubled in size.

So adding a few newlines would be a tiny price to pay for increased
ease of inspection by many users.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-30  0:58 how to delete groups despite backend jidanni
2007-11-30  1:22 ` Dave Goldberg
2007-11-30  1:32 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-12-03  0:02   ` .newsrc.eld should have one newline per group jidanni
2007-12-03 23:55     ` jidanni [this message]
2007-12-04  1:27       ` jidanni
2007-12-05  5:26     ` Michael Olson
2007-12-05 23:18       ` James Cloos
2007-12-06  7:35         ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-07  1:00           ` reader
2007-12-06  8:35         ` Daniel Pittman
2007-12-06 12:43         ` jidanni
2007-12-03  0:11   ` how to delete groups despite backend jidanni

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