From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15376 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: `M-g' does not update my `Agent' `groups' file. Date: 24 Jun 1998 06:40:09 +0200 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: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154418 21771 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:53:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:53:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA14671 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:59:45 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA11842 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAS08383; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:50:28 -0500 (CDT) 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 XAA16817 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:49:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21732 invoked by uid 504); 24 Jun 1998 04:49:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21701 invoked from network); 24 Jun 1998 04:48:54 -0000 Original-Received: from ppp087.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.240.92) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 1998 04:48:53 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA20731; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:49:06 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Mike McEwan's message of "20 Jun 1998 12:40:52 +0100" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.13/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > However, when selectively finding out if there are any new articles > to download for a given group via an `M-g' I've noticed that the > `groups' file in the appropriate news directory does *not* get updated > as it does when doing just a `g' in the group buffer. This means that > having downloaded news articles for a given group and then exiting and > restarting gnus, the last lot of downloaded articles will not be > visible when entering the group as the `groups' file is still as was > *before* these articles were downloaded. > > This can't be right - can it? No, but that's the way it is today. The Agent active file thing will have to be re-done, because it's way silly today. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen