Re: missing News directory

Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Robert,

Robert Holtzman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm running slrn 0.9.8.1pl1 [2005-02-17] on Debian 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-486. 
> When I installed slrn it failed to install a $HOME/News directory which 
> should contain My_Posts and My_Replys files. I also have Ubutu 8.04 on the 
> box also with slrn (I forget which release). Can I copy $HOME/News from 
> Ubuntu to Debian, being careful to prserve permissions etc?

Yes, you can. These files are simple mbox files, nothing special. Slrn
does only append new messages to the end.

Bye, Jörg.
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