Re: Alphabetizing the news group list
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 13:42:30 -0800
In article <199912061849.KAA29867@ shell1.ncal.verio.com>,
Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
>The Yfolder utility allows you
>to reorder messages in a Yarn folder. In theory, this could work on
>the news messages in news.dat, since it is just a certain kind of
>yarn folder. But you probably do not want that.
You definitely do not want to do that! news.dat is *not* in the
same format as yarn folders. The old news spool files from version
.89 and before *were* in the same format as yarn folders, but with
the introduction of news.dat in yarn 0.90, this is no longer true.