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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.
-