Re: Yarn 0.92 is quietly deleting my newsgroups

From: Greg Resch (resch@cpcug.org)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 23:59:24 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Chin Huang wrote:
> Yarn version 0.70 contained the cvt07 program which converted a version
> 0.6 news base to version 0.7. Yarn version 0.80 contained the cvt08
> program which converted a version 0.7 news base to version 0.8. Yarn
> version 0.89 is still available at http://www.vex.net/yarn/archive/, but I
> don't have a copy of Yarn version 0.7x.

Unfortunately the ENGLISH.UPG file in 0.92 makes no mention of any earlier
conversion requirements. Now that cvt09 has made hash out of my
10-megabyte newsbase--deleting all the input files in the process--I don't
see what cvt07 and cvt08 could do for me now.

It's too bad that ENGLISH.UPG quietly assumes that all earlier conversions
have been made, and couldn't have included a small warning that cvt09
was for use only on an 0.8x newsbase, rather than alluding merely to
"previous versions."

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