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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I "catchup" on all newsgroups at once?
Message-ID: <217@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 90 21:37:17 GMT
References: <4586@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <4586@hydra.gatech.EDU> steve%revolver@gatech.edu () writes:
>                                I read news on two different machines - when
>one is down, I use the other.  It would be nice to instantly catch up on the
>backup machine after having read the news on the primary machine.

If they are both served by the same NNTP server and have
equivalent nntp_access rights, you can copy the .newsrc et al.
files around.  Otherwise there's a nasty time window; you'll
potentially catch up on articles you should have seen.

					-=EPS=-