At 10:24 AM 1/31/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> > Upgrade dnews to 5.4j7 or later.
> > Then do this:
> > tellnews newgroup new.group.name y
> > tellnews copy_group old.group.name new.group.name
> > tellnews showgroup new.group.name
> > tellnews delete_items new.group.name 1 NNN
> > (where NNN is the item number in the new group you want
> > items deleted to)
>
>Chris: Thanks, looks good. One more question: Does version 5.4+ provide
>any way to simply rename an existing local group? That would be the
>simplest solution, if it's possible. Thanks again!
No, the problem is to rename a group the contents of the headers of every
item needs to be changed (as the headers
include this iinformation) so the items do really need to be coppied and
modified, so rather than fake this we have made
it so people have to know what they are doing so the consequences will be
more expected.
ChrisP.
