From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14179 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Edward J. Sabol" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: AUTHINFO Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:26:15 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199802191526.KAA18727@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153414 13408 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23709 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:31:45 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA15309 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:30:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAN13509; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:05:39 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:26:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12765 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:26:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 15168 invoked by uid 504); 19 Feb 1998 15:26:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15165 invoked from network); 19 Feb 1998 15:26:19 -0000 Original-Received: from alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.127.237) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 1998 15:26:19 -0000 Original-Received: by alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (950413.SGI.8.6.12/951211.SGI.AUTO) id KAA18727; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:26:15 -0500 Original-To: Gnus Mailing List In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on 16 Feb 1998 19:53:31 +0100) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14179 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14179 Excerpts from mail: (16-Feb-98) Re: AUTHINFO by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen >> BTW: "rc" stands for "run commands" and means "commands to run when >> the interpreter is started". Is that really appropriate for the >> authinforc file? > > Perhaps not, but .netrc is called .netrc even if the commands aren't > really "run" there either. That's not really true. You can define macros, including a macro that runs commands everytime you login to a specific FTP site. However, the point about .newsrc not having any commands is certainly a valid counterexample of a configuration file that doesn't "run commands". > Dunno. I can rename all the authinforc things to authinfo (or something > else). Whaddayousay, people? I like ~/.authinfo personally, but I can live with ~/.authinforc. Later, Ed