>> 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?
>This would work if the two news bases were always kept in sync. To
>get them in sync, you'll either have to copy the newsbase from one
>machine to the other, or zero both newsbases.
Ok. I might be able to do this, maybe, if I can ever get my newsbase
shrunk down enough to copy relatively easily.
>To zero the news bases, you could probably just delete news.dat,
>history.*, and supersed.*, then run rebuild. You might also have to
>delete the files in the yarn/ overview directory.
I might just go this route, though. My news.dat file is about 27 MB
right now.
>Once you have the two news bases in sync, keep them in sync by
>_always_ importing the same SOUP packets into _both_ news bases in the
>same order. Then copy the newsrc file. If you _ever_ skip a SOUP
>packet on either news base, the two news bases will be out of sync and
>you'll have to re-sync them.
Got it. Thanks for the advice.
I'm assuming I can't just start up a newsbase on the machine that
doesn't currently have yarn on it, and just transport the newsrc file,
because the numbers will be all different?
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