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Re: why not just .newsrc?
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David Engster |
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Re: why not just .newsrc? |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 23:09:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) |
Emanuel Berg writes:
> One thing I don't understand is, if .newsrc-dribble is
> used to track every little change, just to have in case
> of a crash (which never happens), then why not do that
> to .newsrc itself, keeping it up-to-date constantly?
> (.newsrc or .newsrc.eld)
. That would increase the chance of a crash corrupting .newsrc.eld
itself, instead of just the dribble file.
. It would make it more difficult to quit Gnus without saving
.newsrc.eld in case you did something stupid (you'd have to store undo
information instead, leading to a reverse dribble file).
-David
- .newsrc-dribble autosave, akb427, 2014/07/05
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- Re: why not just .newsrc?, Emanuel Berg, 2014/07/06
- Re: why not just .newsrc?, Peter Münster, 2014/07/06
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- Re: why not just .newsrc?, Emanuel Berg, 2014/07/06
- Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave, Michael Heerdegen, 2014/07/06