On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 11:27:58 -0400,
In article <+rz6z8MBAzRB090yn@america.net>,
judge@america.net (Dirk A. Loedding) wrote:
> bv@bigblue.no (B. Vermo) wrote:
>
> >As far as I can see, there is no difference between folders and newsgroups.
>
> I guess it depends on what version you're using. The version I'm using
> (Yarn95 v.90) creates real, physical files that have the stuff I've
> saved to folders contained therein.
>
> >They only contain a pointer to the article in the database. Old versions
> >of Yarn had one file for each folder or newsgroup, but after the change
> >it looks like everything is kept in one file.
>
> I believe that even .92 keeps actual files, though I wouldn't swear to
> it. I had to drop back a couple of versions due to it not working well
> on my machine for some reason. But, I could be wrong.
All versions of Yarn that I'm familiar with (since about .57) use
separate files for each folder. Copying an article to a folder
physically copies the article from the news.dat file to a file with
the same name as the folder.
What I think B. Vermo is alluding to is the pseudo newsgroups that
Yarn uses for mailing lists. In that case, there is no difference in
Yarn between real newsgroups and pseudo newsgroups used for mailing
lists.
Talk with you later,
bob
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