From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21312 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Rafferty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: a big .newsrc.eld is *fragile* Date: 19 Feb 1999 12:03:12 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159440 22347 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:17:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: newsrc,eld,backup Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23410 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:14:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB00712; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:09:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:09:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA23093 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:08:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from piinbh2.ms.com (firewall-user@piinbh2.ms.com [199.89.64.72]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23143 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:08:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by piinbh2.ms.com (8.8.6/fw v1.22) id NAA21037 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:08:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unknown(144.14.9.190) by piinbh2.ms.com via smap (4.1) id xma005370; Fri, 19 Feb 99 12:03:14 -0500 Original-Received: from sag3.morgan.com (sag3.morgan.com [144.14.8.198]) by safid1.morgan.com (8.8.5/hub+ldap v2.3) with ESMTP id MAA25204 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:03:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (craffert@localhost) by sag3.morgan.com (8.8.5/sendmail.cf.client v1.05) id RAA01547; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:03:12 GMT Original-To: GNUS Mailing List Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: ""xJff%{>hr-{:QXl"Xk2O@@(+F]e{"%EYQiW@mUuvEsL>=mx96j12qW[%m;|:B^n{J8k?Mz[K1_+H;$v,nYx^1o_=4M,L+]FIU~[[`-w~~xsy-BX,?tAF_.8u&0y*@aCv;a}Y'{w@#*@iwAl?oZpvvv X-Y-Zippy: NOW, I'm supposed to SCRAMBLE two, and HOLD th' MAYO!! In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "19 Feb 1999 17:37:27 +0100" Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070075 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.75) XEmacs/21.0(beta63) (Pyrenean63) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21312 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21312 Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : >> Steinar Bang 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