From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43180 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (David S. Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Documentation fix for gnus-slave Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:32:14 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178315 16201 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:31:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 3769 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2002 18:34:49 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 2002 18:34:49 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16dF46-0002wK-00; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:32:35 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:32:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA11793 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:32:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 3742 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2002 18:32:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3737 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2002 18:32:18 -0000 Original-Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (198.76.173.29) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Feb 2002 18:32:18 -0000 Original-Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1JIWH525483 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:32:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1JIWGp20408 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:32:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from blackbird.mitre.org (129.83.10.221) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 9294749; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:32:13 -0500 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, sparc-sun-solaris2.7) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43180 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43180 --=-=-= In response to a question on gnu.emacs.gnus, I propose the attached patch to gnus.texi which explains why, when starting gnus-slave, one might be prompted as to whether to read the auto-save file. -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-patch Content-Disposition: inline Index: gnus.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/texi/gnus.texi,v retrieving revision 6.262 diff -c -r6.262 gnus.texi *** gnus.texi 2002/02/18 15:47:20 6.262 --- gnus.texi 2002/02/19 18:29:21 *************** *** 1117,1122 **** --- 1117,1127 ---- Information from the slave files has, of course, precedence over the information in the normal (i.e., master) @code{.newsrc} file. + If the @code{.newsrc*} files have not been saved in the master when the + slave starts, you may be prompted as to whether to read an auto-save + file. If you answer "yes", the unsaved changes to the master will be + incorporated into the slave. If you answer "no", the slave may see some + messages as unread that have been read in the master. @node Fetching a Group @section Fetching a Group --=-=-=--