* Problems when upgrading newsrc from 5.9 to No Gnus
@ 2004-05-21 12:05 Reiner Steib
2004-05-21 16:02 ` Kevin Greiner
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2004-05-21 12:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
[ Taking this from gnu.emacs.help to ding... ]
On Thu, May 20 2004, Miles Bader wrote:
,----[ <news:874qqb45ra.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> ]
| I tried it out on a lark today (while setting up the gnus arch archive),
| and it flaked out pretty badly, undefined variable errors, couldn't read
| mail (got it from the server, but failed to store it in my mail
| folders!). I even thought it trashed my .newsrc.eld file for a while --
| it asked if I wanted to "upgrade" that file (irreversibly), recommended
| I make a backup, and when I realized I'd better go back to 5.9, the
| backup had been deleted! Luckily it turned out that the "upgrade" had
| failed too... :-)
`----
,----[ <news:87r7teu7k8.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> ]
| BTW, about the .newsrc "upgrade" -- as I mentioned, it asked me, and
| then failed to actually change anything.
|
| One thing that's funny about my Gnus setup is that I don't use a
| .newsrc file -- I only have have a .newsrc.eld file. Should the
| upgrade process cope with that situation?
`----
It should work, I think. But I'm not familiar with
`gnus-convert-old-newsrc' and friends.
Bye, Reiner.
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* Re: Problems when upgrading newsrc from 5.9 to No Gnus
2004-05-21 12:05 Problems when upgrading newsrc from 5.9 to No Gnus Reiner Steib
@ 2004-05-21 16:02 ` Kevin Greiner
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From: Kevin Greiner @ 2004-05-21 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> [ Taking this from gnu.emacs.help to ding... ]
>
> On Thu, May 20 2004, Miles Bader wrote:
>
> ,----[ <news:874qqb45ra.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> ]
> | I tried it out on a lark today (while setting up the gnus arch archive),
> | and it flaked out pretty badly, undefined variable errors, couldn't read
> | mail (got it from the server, but failed to store it in my mail
> | folders!). I even thought it trashed my .newsrc.eld file for a while --
> | it asked if I wanted to "upgrade" that file (irreversibly), recommended
> | I make a backup, and when I realized I'd better go back to 5.9, the
> | backup had been deleted! Luckily it turned out that the "upgrade" had
> | failed too... :-)
> `----
>
> ,----[ <news:87r7teu7k8.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> ]
> | BTW, about the .newsrc "upgrade" -- as I mentioned, it asked me, and
> | then failed to actually change anything.
> |
> | One thing that's funny about my Gnus setup is that I don't use a
> | .newsrc file -- I only have have a .newsrc.eld file. Should the
> | upgrade process cope with that situation?
> `----
>
> It should work, I think. But I'm not familiar with
> `gnus-convert-old-newsrc' and friends.
Thanks for the heads-up. I posted a response to Miles on
gnu.emacs.help to add some finality to that thread.
I'll see what I can do to make the conversion messages clearer.
Kevin
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