Re: Gnus help - new newsfeed

[Joe Casadonte]

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002, Jonas Steverud wrote:

> "Joe Casadonte" <jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> writes:
>
>>Short of editing .newsrc.eld, is
>> there anything I can do to "reset" this?  Or do I have a totally
>> different problem?  Thanks!
>
> Check out Changing Servers in the Gnus info file. The news servers
> probably are named the same which makes it (maybe) a little harder
> but it sort of gives some information. I've never used ut myself.

Silly me, didn't look hard enough in the Info file.  OK, so this has
exactly what I want, except I don't understand one part:

,----
|    After changing servers, you *must* move the cache hierarchy away,
| since the cached articles will have wrong article numbers, which will
| affect which articles Gnus thinks are read.
`----

Does move in this sense mean to literally move the files someplace
else (i.e. $ mv xxx yyy)?  How would I access them still?  What
happens if I don't?  Thanks much!

--
Regards,

joe
Joe Casadonte
jcasadonte@northbound-train.com

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