From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41928 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Marks woes on upgrade from oort 0.03 -> 0.04. Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:05:57 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87666jpu0h.fsf@cs.utah.edu> <87y9j32jik.fsf@cs.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177247 8695 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:14:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 3068 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2002 04:06:40 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 04:06:40 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16PbuP-0005ts-00; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:06:13 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:06:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA08319 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:05:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 3058 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2002 04:05:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3053 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2002 04:05:58 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmailr@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 04:05:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9470 invoked by uid 500); 13 Jan 2002 04:06:19 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87y9j32jik.fsf@cs.utah.edu> (Karra's message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2002 05:46:52 +0530") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41928 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41928 Karra 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