some still bad

some still bad

[Michael Harnois]

Alas, alack, and ah, s*&# ... as of 0.27 read-active-file 'some still
exhibits the same misbehavior on native nntp groups ... I know you're
getting tired of hearing about this ...

+  Michael D. Harnois           +  The Christian ideal has not been      +
+  Pastor, computer nerd,       +  tried and found wanting; it has been  +
+  Linux user, Havanese owner   +  found difficult and left untried.     + 
+  mharnois@sbt.net             +          --G. K. Chesterton            +

Re: some still bad

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

Michael> Alas, alack, and ah, s*&# ... as of 0.27 read-active-file
Michael> 'some still exhibits the same misbehavior on native nntp
Michael> groups ... I know you're getting tired of hearing about this
Michael> ...

The test for whether an nntp server groks LIST ACTIVE group is bogus.
The workaround for now is to hardcode the test:
(setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil)


On another note ...
The following patch is one way to fix the gnus-make-directory botch:
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/gnus-util.el,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 gnus-util.el
--- gnus-util.el	1996/09/05 19:00:59	1.10
+++ gnus-util.el	1996/09/06 05:39:07
@@ -538,10 +538,11 @@
 
 (defun gnus-make-directory (directory)
   "Make DIRECTORY (and all its parents) if it doesn't exist."
-  (when (not (file-exists-p directory))
+  (if (file-exists-p directory)
+      t
     (make-directory directory t)
     t))
- 
+
 (provide 'gnus-util)
 
 ;;; gnus-util.el ends here

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