Re: Dumping the ELD file to something portable..

[raeburn@cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn)]

   From: Patrick Audley <paudley@portal.ca>
   Date: 20 Dec 1995 23:02:34 -0800


	   There might already be a way to do this, but I would like to
   dump all the info out of the ELD file excluding the .newrc stuff (ex:
   only the group parameters, et al..).  This way I can tromp over to
   another system with a brand spanking new copy of sgnus and take all my
   settings with me (without all the article numbers and such that are
   invalid on the new server).

Something a bit more useful would be to translate article numbers from
the news server into message-ids and vice versa.  So when you get to
the new news server you can go mark them read/ticked/whatever again,
without having to re-read them.  I've seen a perl script around
somewhere that does something similar for plain newsrc files.

Of course, that's a lot more data to drag around, but I would hope
it's something you don't have to do that often...