Re: Reading in an arbitrary .newsrc file?

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>]

Emerick Rogul <emerick@cs.bu.edu> writes:

> I have an old .newsrc file (from the same news server that I'm
> currently using, so there's no problem there) that I'd like to
> incorporate into my current .newsrc.eld.  In other words, I'd like
> to suck in (technical term) all of the groups from that old .newsrc
> file, preserving their current status (articles read, etc.) in my
> .newsrc.eld.
> 
> Is this possible, or am I just being perverse?

No problem, I think.

Just make sure that Gnus saves a normal `.newsrc' file
(`gnus-save-newsrc-file' should be non-nil), exit Gnus, join the two
files using Emacs, `cat', or whatever you use to concatenate files,
and save the joined contents as `.newsrc'.  Fire up Gnus, and it
should notice the addition.

I haven't tried it, but it Should Work(tm).  After all, the beginning
of .newsrc.eld says:

;; Never delete this file -- if you want to force Gnus to read the
;; .newsrc file (if you have one), touch .newsrc instead.

So it Should Work.