I would like to hack its contents to resolve a couple of problems. 1) I (foolishly perhaps!) read a large and active newgroup (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general) and that causes a lot of cruft to be dumped in my News directory (in the cache and some other sub-directory). since the system I'm reading it on has a quota, plus I pay for storage. I would like to safely prune that directory down to minimal size, without losing the few articles I have saved that may help me get my broken copy of xp working.
2) In other groups I read, I have articles marked * and !*. The ones marked !* work correctly, they don't show up as unread, but they do persist. The ones marked * show up as unread when I restart gnus. Now the ones marked just * probably got in that state when I last "cleaned up" my news directory (see 1). So, I'l like to fiddle with the files to fix up those articles so that they show up as !* also. To do all of this, it would help if I understood what the various files in the news directory, the contents of the .newsrc, and whatever other information gnus keeps from run to run. So, if there is a pointer to something that documents the above that I just don't know about, being made aware of it would be much appreciated. Thanks, -Chris _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
