From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>
Subject: Problems when upgrading newsrc from 5.9 to No Gnus
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:05:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9wu36ugse.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (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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