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At 09:05 PM 11/13/99 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> nicene@bigfoot.com (Andie) writes:
>> 
>> > Windows doesn't permit files with ":" in the filename and the score
>> > file for foreign servers contains the character. As a result, whenever 
>> > Gnus tries to save score customisation for a foreign group, it
>> > hangs. Emacs for Win32 doesn't have the problem as the score file uses 
>> > "_" instead of ":".
>> 
>> Hmmm. This seems more like a gnus problem to me. Do you mean that
>> NTEmacs, mangles filenames automatically? From what I can see gnus
>> doesn't seem to use any special code for NTEmacs here.
>
>If Gnus is used under Win32 this is required:
>
>(setq nnheader-file-name-translation-alist '((?: . ?_)
>                                             (?+ . ?-)))
>
>OTOH this should be the default for theese systems -- so make sure the
>variable contain the proper value.
>
>The check is
>
>        (string-match "windows-nt\\|os/2\\|emx" (symbol-name system-type))
>
>would that evaluate to true on a Windows 95/98 system, I wonder?

On Win98 mingw32 build, XEmacs 21.2 b19 (from CVS):

(string-match "windows-nt\\|os/2\\|emx" (symbol-name system-type))
0
(symbol-name system-type)
"windows-nt"