Multiple machine Internews use??
Bob Durst
sometimes from work. The problem is that if I have read a group one
place that info isn't updated on the other machine. Is there some way
to keep them coordinated short of subscribing to different groups on
the two machines?
(I do have full access to the work machine from home if that could some
way be used to help)
Wade Masshardt
dur...@bcc.orst.edu (Bob Durst) writes:
Just do what I do. Put your subscription file on a floppy disk & carry
it with you at all times. When you read news, either at home or at
work, just insert the floppy & double-click on the subscription file.
I switched from Nuntius for just this reason. There is no way to do
this with Nuntius unless you have a 20 meg floptical or something
equally large. With InterNews, my subscription file is less than 100K.
I do the same thing with Eudora for my email. Having the file on
floppy does cause some delay whenever the subscription file is saved,
but it is tolerable.
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Roger Brown
The only ways to do that currently are these:
1. Carry the subscription file around on a floppy.
2. Mount the work disk as a file server on the home machine and use the
subscription file on the work machine. This is slow if you are
auto-saving. You might rather copy it to the home machine, use it while
reading, then copy it back to the server. Alias' help some here.
3. Keep separate subscription files at the two places and move just the
record of what you have read using the "import/export .newsrc file"
options and a floppy. This has little real advantage over first method
other than it lets you have different preferences and window positions
on the two machines.
Some day I hope to add the ability to keep your reading state
synchronized using an intermediate ftp host like NewsWatcher does, but
that is not ready yet.
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Software Development
Kiewit Computation Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH