From: Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Experimenting with QGnus 0.20
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:28:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5454-Fri09Jan1998082801-0500-norm@berkshire.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Balker Rasmussen's message of "08 Jan 1998 22:14:57 +0100"
Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk> writes:
> Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:
> > Thank you, David. That definitely helps. The next problem I encounter
> > is that when I do a "J s", I'm told:
> >
> > Fetching headers for nntp+news.berkshire.net:comp.fonts...
> >
> > Creating directory: invalid argument, n:/home/nwalsh/News/agent/nntp/news.berkshire.net/nntp+news/berkshire/net:comp
> >
> > I'm betting the problem is that second colon, but I don't see any config
> > info for setting this and I've had little luck finding anything in the *.el
> > files.
>
> You're using win32? This looks like the same thingy I reported some
> time ago, but since round tuits are backordered at the moment, I haven't
> retried it to get a backtrace. Please try:
>
> M-: (setq debug-on-error t) RET
> J s
>
> and send the backtrace, so I can cancel my tuit order :-)
Sorry, before I saw this I went ahead and mangled my .newsrc.eld
file so that I could make nnml the secondary method and nntp the
primary. All better now.
--norm
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-09 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-06 15:35 Norman Walsh
1998-01-08 16:39 ` Norman Walsh
1998-01-08 17:07 ` David S. Goldberg
1998-01-08 20:44 ` Norman Walsh
1998-01-08 21:14 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-01-09 13:28 ` Norman Walsh [this message]
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