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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: Marks woes on upgrade from oort 0.03 -> 0.04.
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:05:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u1tq28uc.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y9j32jik.fsf@cs.utah.edu> (Karra's message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2002 05:46:52 +0530")

Karra <karra@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> How about inserting the following into the manual?
>
> --- gnus.texi.old       Sun Jan 13 05:36:43 2002
> +++ gnus.texi   Sun Jan 13 05:42:19 2002
> @@ -13688,6 +13688,10 @@
>  to restore the group (after restoring the backup into the nnml
>  directory).
>
> +If for some reason you believe your @file{.marks} files are screwed
> +up, you can just delete them all.  Gnus will then correctly regenerate
> +them next time it starts.
> +

Better also include a note that this will not necessarily always be
true in future versions.  Right now, .newsrc.eld is storing a
redundant copy of the same information, but that may not always be the
case.


paul



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-13  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-03 11:13 Karra
2002-01-05 16:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-13  0:16   ` Karra
2002-01-13  4:05     ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2002-01-19 22:10     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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