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.
next prev parent 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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