From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4746 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Dumping the ELD file to something portable.. Date: 17 Jan 1996 03:51:28 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145450 30662 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA32167 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:23:55 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 03:51:31 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 03:51:30 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Patrick Audley's message of 20 Dec 1995 23:02:34 -0800 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4746 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4746 Patrick Audley writes: > There might already be a way to do this, but I would like to > dump all the info out of the ELD file excluding the .newrc stuff (ex: > only the group parameters, et al..). This way I can tromp over to > another system with a brand spanking new copy of sgnus and take all my > settings with me (without all the article numbers and such that are > invalid on the new server). I've added something like this to the Red Gnus todo list. Gnus should do some article number -> message-id translation (`gnus-pack-bags-for-travelling') and the reverse (`gnus-unpack-bags') to enable people to move around from server to server. I don't know how to do that in finite time, though. -- Miss Leonora Cortes, age 85, purchased three large bags of individually wrapped Halloween candles to give out last year, though no children came to her door.