From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5642 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: khan@cs.purdue.edu (Muhammad Farrukh Khan) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Renumbering articles in mail groups Date: 21 Mar 1996 10:30:47 -0500 Organization: Purdue University Department of Computer Sciences Sender: khan@cs.purdue.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146216 911 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA15440 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:38:30 -0800 Original-Received: from arthur.cs.purdue.edu (root@arthur.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:31:06 +0100 Original-Received: from ector.cs.purdue.edu (khan@ector.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.10]) by arthur.cs.purdue.edu (8.7.3/PURDUE_CS-1.4) with ESMTP id KAA27472; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:30:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from khan@localhost) by ector.cs.purdue.edu (8.7.4/PURDUE_CS-1.4) id KAA27036; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:30:50 -0500 (EST) Original-To: aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il (Aharon (Al) Schkolnik) In-Reply-To: aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il's message of 21 Mar 1996 16:16:54 +0300 Original-Lines: 27 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5642 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5642 Aharon (Al) Schkolnik writes: > > I'm wondering if there is a clean way to have gnus renumber the > articles. I use babyl. Following are Lars and my messages. > > Aharon > I had the same query few days ago. I got a response about reducing gaps, but keeping high numbers, eg. 1 99 becomes 99 100. I use nnml. What I chose to do was to use an MH routine, folder. So, folder -all -recursive -pack -verbose cleanly packed all my nnml directories. I then applied nnml-gen-nov-databases. Don't know the side effects as yet, but I guess it works. Those without MH can perhaps write a Perl one-liner to renumber all the files in the subdirectories of a directory. Farrukh -- ----------------------------------------- Muhammad Farrukh Khan, khan@cs.purdue.edu -----------------------------------------