From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12443 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: .newsrc, .newsrc.el <== Why?, .newsrc.eld Date: 30 Sep 1997 22:22:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151978 3795 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:12:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA22511 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:13:26 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA28464 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:06:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 04:22:57 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17981 invoked by uid 504); 1 Oct 1997 02:22:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17978 invoked from network); 1 Oct 1997 02:22:50 -0000 Original-Received: from pocari-sweat.jprc.com (207.86.147.217) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 1 Oct 1997 02:22:49 -0000 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by pocari-sweat.jprc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA23257; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:22:15 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6h R;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu In-Reply-To: SL Baur's message of "30 Sep 1997 16:13:05 -0700" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12443 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12443 SL Baur writes: > What earthly use is the .newsrc.el file? None. .el is the file maintained by Old GNUS (v4.x and previous). The very first time Gnus 5.x is run, it's supposed to snoop around for .el and use it as a base from which to work, but is ignored thereafter, once Gnus 5.x starts maintaining .eld. (I don't recall quite precisely, but one [probably failing] memory cell is demanding to be heard, that "eld" is the ".EL for Ding" file.)