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Upgrading from older versions of ReadNews
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There have been many significant changes made to ReadNews since the last
public release. In particular, the NewsBase has changed slightly and the
config files have been split up, and new ones added.
Any patches, changes or additions you have made to your copy of ReadNews
will most likely not work with this new version (many of them will however
be redundant, I suspect).
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BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE, BACKUP YOUR EXISTING READNEWS INSTALLATION
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To upgrade to the new newsbase, the convertor "BuildActiv" has been
provided. To use it do the following:
- Rename/move your existing !NewsDir elsewhere, and copy the new empty
one into its place.
- Open both the old and new NewsDirs, and copy/move the contents of the
"News" subdirectory from the old NewsDir to the same relative position
in the new one.
- Double-Click on the new !NewsDir.
- Run "BuildActiv". This program scans the news database, deleting ~seq
files and building a list of newsgroups and sequence numbers in the
Active file. BuildActiv can be used at any time if you lose your Active
file for some reason.
Now you can install ReadNews and Incorp themselves. Do NOT copy across
any config files from the old applications to the new ones, as their
contents will have changed. Instead, simply reconfigure each application
from within after you have started it.
Active File Management
======================
I am now using a standard Active file to store newsgroup information, and
support the following flags on the end of each line in the file:
'y' - normal posting to this group is allowed
'n' - posting to this group is disabled
'x' - this group is invisible, and no articles either local or remote
will be posted here
If you are familiar with standard Active file format you will know there
are two other flags, 'm' and '='. Do not use these, as they are not yet
supported. In fact '=' will cause serious confusion. You have been warned.
Additionally I don't use the second numeric field (number of lowest article
in newsgroup) yet.
The order in which groups occur in the Active file is the order in which
ReadNews will display them. So you can, for example, move your Email groups
to the top of the list, and junk and test groups to the bottom.