From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13492 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Article caching question Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:04:30 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152849 9539 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:27:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:27:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA15358 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 04:11:12 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA21531 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:09:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAH18847; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:09:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 07 Jan 1998 06:09:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA18834 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:08:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 13898 invoked by uid 504); 7 Jan 1998 12:08:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13895 invoked from network); 7 Jan 1998 12:08:33 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.32.10) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 1998 12:08:32 -0000 Original-Received: from typhoon.ncc.co.uk (zcaceog@th-eng05-144.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.55.144]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA23493; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:08:28 GMT Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by typhoon.ncc.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA03311; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:08:26 GMT Original-To: Kai Grossjohann In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "07 Jan 1998 12:10:45 +0100" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Original-Xref: typhoon.ncc.co.uk queue:3 Original-Lines: 43 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13492 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13492 Kai Grossjohann writes: > >>>>> On 07 Jan 1998, Eze Ogwuma said: > > Eze> If I turn on article caching and gnus-asynchronous but not > Eze> gnus-jog-cache will gnus store *all* the articles that are > Eze> pre-fetched in the cache until they are read? > You seem to want to do offline news reading. For this, Quassia has > the "agent" feature. See the manual for details (I've never used it). Thanks for the reply Kai, I've only just started to experiment with Gnus unplugged today. What I really want to do is to speed things up for normal news reading. I want to have gnus pre-fetch articles in the group I happen to be reading and hold them on the local hard disk so that I can read them without having to wait for Gnus to fetch each article. I also want to be able to move back and forth in the buffer without having to wait for an article I've already read (or one that was previously fetched but is unread) to be fetched again. I don't know if you've ever used the program Knews but right now I use that for News reading and Gnus for Mail because Knews does things like storing information about the groups on the local hard disk between sessions, including thread information. It also has a trail-ahead-cache and a cache of previously read articles. This makes it very fast over a modem. I've been using various combinations of gnus-asynchronous gnus-keep-backlog and gnus-use-cache to try to duplicate this behavior. However I've found that Gnus will still fetch a previously fetched article when that article is uuencoded. i.e. In a buffer with 100 articles if I read (and uudecode (X u)) articles 9-20 then go back and uudecode and save (X U) article 10 Gnus still fetches article 10 again. -- Eze Ogwuma