* .newsrc, .newsrc.el <== Why?, .newsrc.eld
@ 1997-09-30 23:13 SL Baur
1997-10-01 2:22 ` Karl Kleinpaste
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From: SL Baur @ 1997-09-30 23:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
The recent postings about compressing the startup files got me looking
at my own startup file sizes, and now I have a question ...
What earthly use is the .newsrc.el file? I cannot recall what I was
doing on August 11, 1995, but I doubt it was anything that has much
meaning in the context of running Quassia Gnus in September 1997 ...
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve devel 23990 Sep 30 15:43 .newsrc
-rw------- 1 steve devel 417159 Aug 11 1995 .newsrc.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve devel 253583 Sep 30 15:43 .newsrc.eld
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* Re: .newsrc, .newsrc.el <== Why?, .newsrc.eld
1997-09-30 23:13 .newsrc, .newsrc.el <== Why?, .newsrc.eld SL Baur
@ 1997-10-01 2:22 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-10-02 8:55 ` SL Baur
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From: Karl Kleinpaste @ 1997-10-01 2:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> What earthly use is the .newsrc.el file?
None. .el is the file maintained by Old GNUS (v4.x and previous).
The very first time Gnus 5.x is run, it's supposed to snoop around for
.el and use it as a base from which to work, but is ignored
thereafter, once Gnus 5.x starts maintaining .eld.
(I don't recall quite precisely, but one [probably failing] memory
cell is demanding to be heard, that "eld" is the ".EL for Ding" file.)
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* Re: .newsrc, .newsrc.el <== Why?, .newsrc.eld
1997-10-01 2:22 ` Karl Kleinpaste
@ 1997-10-02 8:55 ` SL Baur
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From: SL Baur @ 1997-10-02 8:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:
> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
>> What earthly use is the .newsrc.el file?
> None. .el is the file maintained by Old GNUS (v4.x and previous).
That makes sense. I went searching through old records and found the
newsrc.el was last modified on the day I signed on to this mailing
list.
Now, how can I possibly delete it? Its modification date is the date
I switched to Gnus5? It seems like sacrilege ... :-)
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