On Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:47:45 +0700,
In article <RbKzzYhtjnQc092yn@mozart.inet.co.th>,
brianj@mozart.inet.co.th (Brian Jackson) wrote:
> In article <SCzyzgHAAoIT092yn@y.z>, tim@yarn.list (Tim Maddletun) wrote:
> >
> >Yarn couldn't care less where the news comes from. Import from as many
> >servers as you want. Yarn also filters out duplicates for you, so you
> >don't have to worry about downloading the same message several times
>
> You'd still be downloading the duplicates, right? They'd be rejected
> by import.
You're not going to cut down the download time by using multiple news
servers. You're still going to be downloading everything, including
duplicates from each server. Once you download them, Yarn will
discard the duplicates.
>
> >from different servers. Messages are not "numbered" when yarn imports
> >them. The numbers in your .newsrc file is just for UQWK to keep track
> >of which messages you've not read yet on its news server, it has
> >nothing to do with Yarn.
>
> Is the .newsrc file in the yarn/yarn directory the same as the one in my
> shell account home directory? I can just upload this file rather that
> doing the renaming online? Or is the .newsrc file on my disc the
> *previous* one before getting the latest soup packet?
The newsrc file in your HOME directory is the one used by Yarn to
remember which articles you have read in Yarn. The numbers in this
newsrc file are assigned by Yarn.
The newsrc file used by UQWK or Souper or vsoup is used to remember
which articles you have downloaded from the news server. It's numbers
are assigned by the news server and have no relation to the numbers in
Yarn's newsrc file. In other words, article number 10 in Yarn's
newsrc file may correspond to article number 3576 in uqwk's newsrc
file.
If you're using multiple news servers, you need a separate .newsrc
file for each server. Though, I believe you figured that out for
yourself. I haven't looked at olmenu or omen to see how they handle
multiple servers. From what you say about omen, I would assume that
you'd have to specify the newsrc file yourself before running omen.
The newsrc is the only file used by uqwk that needs to be changed
between servers. The other files you mentioned with rtin are probably
used to pretty up the interface.
bob
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