New Agent stuff ..

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> > The fact that gnus-agent looses track of agentized posts once they are
> > expunged from the server is a singularly annoying aspect of gnus, for
> > us offliners.

Lars writes:
> Yup.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.91.

I see new code and mention in the change log of new functions

+ 1999-07-04 04:35:28  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
+ 
+ 	* gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-save-active-1): New function.
+ 	(gnus-agent-save-active): use it.
+ 	(gnus-agent-save-groups): Ditto.
+ 
+ 	* gnus-cache.el (gnus-cache-write-active): Use it.
+ 
+ 	* gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-write-active): Use it.
+ 
+ 	* gnus-util.el (gnus-write-active-file): New function.
+ 
+ 	* gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-write-active): New function to keep
+ 	lower boundaries and canceled groups.
+ 	(gnus-agent-save-groups): Use it.
+ 	(gnus-agent-save-active): Use it.
+ 	(gnus-agent-save-group-info): Only write active files.
+ 	(gnus-agent-expire): Update active file.
+ 


Its a bit of a puzzle how any of this works or what it is supposed to
do unless one is well conversant with lisp code.

Finding the functions in the *.el files, I hoped for some comments or
even better, something in the info pages.  At least some clues as to
how to use this.

Am I just not finding documentation of some kind? or a pointer...

When first starting pgnus-0.91, my first move was to put some comments
in GroupParams p of a couple of agentized groups indicating what the oldest
articles were and marking them with ?.  Just 7-8 in two groups.

comp.lang.awk
gnu.emacs.gnus

Some of those messages have already disappeared from gnus agent's
view. in the 2 days or so that have elapsed.

If this is fixed, how do you view the server expunged posts.