From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31503 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sync two ~/Mail directories on Windows? Date: 22 Jun 2000 18:20:45 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167906 14446 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8129BD051E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:21:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAC05291; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:21:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:20:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04000 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:20:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 614F1D051E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 15292 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2000 01:20:51 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 23 Jun 2000 01:20:51 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01414; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:20:46 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:20:41 +0200" Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31503 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31503 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > (Potential off-topic alert.) >=20 > Suppose you have two computers, both running Windows (98SE, say) and > you want to use Gnus to read mail on them. Most of the time, you use > the desktop machine, but a few times a week you want to use the laptop > instead. The laptop has sufficient disk space, so you want a full > copy of ~/Mail (and other files such as ~/.newsrc.eld and so on). >=20 > It is not practical to just transfer the whole ~/Mail directory every > time, it being 600MB or so and the transfer takes quite a while even > on fast ethernet... >=20 > On a Unixish system, life is simple: use rsync in one direction before > traveling and in the other direction after traveling. Problem solved. >=20 > But on a Windows system? >=20 > Does the `briefcase' feature do the trick? Or is it possible to get > rsync to work on Windows (both client and server side!)? Or maybe > even dump/restore, with incremental dumps? >=20 > It seems that GNU tar has a feature to ignore old files -- that could > be used, perhaps. >=20 > (The mail backend is nnml, so I guess it is not necessary to be able > to transfer file diffs; just transferring the new files ought to be > sufficient.) In addition to cygwin you may want to check out Uwin. A package developed by David Korn or ksh fame. Have a look at: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/ and below for handy list of the utils and tools included. http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/utilities.html FAQ here:=20 http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/faq.html