From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>
Subject: Re: a big .newsrc.eld is *fragile*
Date: 19 Feb 1999 12:03:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vgv4soitjfz.fsf@ms.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "19 Feb 1999 17:37:27 +0100"
Steinar Bang writes:
>>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>>> It's fragile because we risk losing a *lot* of _mostly_ _static_
>>> information, if the .newsrc.eld is corrupted
>> That's true. But doesn't Emacs create backup files when you save it?
>> Or have you switched that off?
> I switched that off in 1993 ... and I rather liked that
> behaviour so I stuck with it, even after PC-NFS stopped being an
> issue.
You are a brave man.
> Is it possible to turn that on for just ~/.newsrc.eld these days?
(defadvice gnus-save-newsrc-file (around backup activate compile)
"Make sure the .newsrc.eld file has a backup."
(let ((version-control nil))
ad-do-it))
--
Colin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-19 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-16 14:00 Steinar Bang
1999-02-19 16:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-19 16:37 ` Steinar Bang
1999-02-19 17:03 ` Colin Rafferty [this message]
1999-02-19 19:10 ` Colin Rafferty
1999-02-19 19:33 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-19 17:04 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-02-19 17:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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