Re: Yarn on multiple OS

From: Albert Y.C. Lai (trebla@vex.net)
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 11:23:08 -0400

In article <ZzYkzM7ak8dC090yn@eden.com>,
ball8@eden.com (Karl R. Dalley) wrote:
>Does anyone use Yarn on multiple machines and multiple operating
>systems? If so, how do you have it set up and how do you keep the
>two systems in sync?

I use Linux and OS/2 on the same machine. Obviously the %YARN%
directory must reside on an FAT partition, as this is the only common
ground of both of the OSes. You will find that you need two
configuration files. A configuration file prescribes external programs
to be run by Yarn: compressor, editor, filter, metamail, ... all of
which are OS specific. I use %YARNRC% to tell Yarn which configuration
file I want to use. Use two separate directories to hold the
executables, one for each OS version, but use at most one of them as
%YARN%. Make sure the OS specific configuration file refers to the
corresponding version of filter1.

On multiple machines the above precautions are unimportant --- there is
never the mistake of running the wrong executable. But I don't know a
neat way of keeping the newsbases and the newsrc's in sync.

-- 
Albert Y.C. Lai   trebla@vex.net   http://www.vex.net/~trebla/