>Tue, 07 Oct 1997 judge@america.net (Dirk A. Loedding) wrote:
>
>> What would I have to do if I wanted to run Yarn on two different
>> machines, yet keep the news bases in sync?
>It seems pretty simple to me. After you use Yarn, back up any file in
>\news or \home that has the archive bit set. Pack the backup around with
>you, and restore it before you run yarn on the other machine.
Hm. That seems like a bit more than I want/need to do. I can easily
import the SOUP packets to a news.dat on both machines. And I'm not all
that interested in making sure that I have the same stuff in my mailed
and posted folders. I intend to continue handling the reading of my
e-mail on one machine...but I want to be able to read news on both,
without having to cart around umpteen floppies to keep my news file or
my history file.
I'm just wondering whether if I just move the newsrc file back and forth
between the two machines, if that will be sufficient. Will it cause a
problem with my history file?
>The number of files that will change will vary depending on what you
>are doing, with inbox and news.dat being the big ones, but you have
>history files, supersed files, newsrc, and a bunch of others to deal
>with.
I figured newsrc would *have* to be one of them. History gets pretty
large, too...about 900K at the moment. The supersed files are pretty
small...no problem there.
>This could get cumbersome with floppies, but a tape drive
>or stiffy disk would make it quick and easy.
No tape drive available. I do have a PD drive on my work machine, but
not on my home machine, so that's out, too.
>Most laptops also come with a file syncing program. My wife uses a
>Sharp 3041 that came with windows based file syncing that will run over
>a direct serial connection. It may support modem or ethernet too, I
>forget.
If it were a laptop, I'd have no problem. I'd just do it all on the
laptop. My situation is a machine at work and one at home that can't be
connected directly. Oh, well. I was really hoping to get more feedback
on this question. I guess maybe what I need to do is just try it, and
see what happens.
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