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From: Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org>
To: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change location of .newsrc.eld file?
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:39:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a94lc3wx.fsf@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r3xyqaw6.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (Paul W. Rankin's message of "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:44:57 +1000")

On 2014-10-24 07:44 Paul W. Rankin wrote:
> Can I customize the path of the .newsrc.eld file? I'd like to store it
> inside another folder that I can sync to Dropbox.
>
> Caveat: without altering the paths of the ~/News and ~/Mail directories,
> if possible?

Not an answer to your question, but maybe a valid workaround: Did you
try using a symlink?

HTH,
-- 
Alexander Baier


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-24  5:44 Paul W. Rankin
2014-10-24  7:39 ` Alexander Baier [this message]
2014-10-24 13:49 ` Andy Moreton
2014-10-24 14:51   ` Paul W. Rankin
     [not found] <mailman.11918.1414129521.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-10-24 13:21 ` Ted Zlatanov

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