Re: Bringing News to Home

Billy Chan (bilchan@station.net)
Tue, 28 May 1996 09:01:54 +0800

Jose Ribeiro Pena wrote on Tue, 28 May 1996 08:11:25 -0800:

j>I would like to maintain two IDENTICAL msgbases, home and office. Read
j>and expired articles in one should have the same status in the other.

I think this can be done, though I haven't tried myself. It doesn't take
you to backup the whole msgbase home and restore it.

j>If I transport the Soup packets, which is easier (at least it takes
j>less disk space), I loose read and expired flags. Am I right?

If you want to maintain two msgbases, you need to bring soup packets
home. You need to tell import.exe NOT to delete your packets after
importing msgs. Then bring along the

j>If so, please inform which files should I transport?

Besides any configuration/filter file, you need to carry along:

%HOME%\yarn\newsrc Newsgroup subscription file
%HOME%\yarn\readart.* Read cross-posted article lookup table
%YARN%\history.* Article history lookup table
%YARN%\supersed.* Superseded article lookup table
%YARN%\active

The most important ones I believe are "newsrc" and "active". They are
supposed to contain your read flags and expiry flags respectively.

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