Re: gnus as an offline reader?

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Maus <mauslix@hotmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:05:39 +0100, kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de
> (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>
>>Maus <mauslix@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I had tried the things you suggest, but the problem is that it seems
>>> to be no way to go offline, mark the messages and then go back online
>>> and download them. And, when i'm offline i cant find the messages
>>> anymore if i close and then restart Emacs.
>>
>>You can go offline, enter a group.  Then you see a summary buffer.
>>Can you reproduce this?
>
> I don't know exactly why, but now gnus seems to store the news i
> downloded (maybe because i agentized the archive with J-a).

Yes, you need to agentize the servers.

>>Now hit `@' on an article.  It should now be marked `%' (I think)
>>which means marked for downloading.
>>
>>Now exit the group with `q'.  Then go online and hit `J u' on the
>>group to fetch it.  Does that work?
>
> Ok, i can mark articles (i do it when i'm offline), then hit J-j  but
> J-u doesn't work well, the fact is i can't get the messages i marked.
>
> Should i hit J-u in the Summary buffer or in the Group buffer? The
> manual is difficult to understand on that point.

I said to exit the group with q, and then to use J u -- I hope that's
clear enough.  Of course, after exiting the group with q, you will be
in the Group buffer.

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