* Gnus 5.x, OS/2 and those pesky colons :(
@ 1995-12-16 6:35 Roger Williams
1995-12-20 2:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Roger Williams @ 1995-12-16 6:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
I'm stuck using OS/2 instead of Linux a lot these days.
Unfortunately, OS/2 is unable to handle certain Gnus 5.x capabilities,
such as foreign groups, because of its inability to deal with ":"
characters in file names. Fixing gnus-newsgroup-saveable-name:
(defun gnus-newsgroup-saveable-name (group)
(gnus-replace-chars-in-string group ?/ ?. ?: ?. ?\\ ?. ?| ?.))
doesn't solve the whole problem.
Any helpful suggestions? (I don't really want to have to reboot into
Linux just to nnkiboze...)
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* Re: Gnus 5.x, OS/2 and those pesky colons :(
1995-12-16 6:35 Gnus 5.x, OS/2 and those pesky colons :( Roger Williams
@ 1995-12-20 2:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-12-20 3:40 ` Roger Williams
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1995-12-20 2:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
Roger Williams <roger@coelacanth.com> writes:
> I'm stuck using OS/2 instead of Linux a lot these days.
> Unfortunately, OS/2 is unable to handle certain Gnus 5.x capabilities,
> such as foreign groups, because of its inability to deal with ":"
> characters in file names. Fixing gnus-newsgroup-saveable-name:
>
> (defun gnus-newsgroup-saveable-name (group)
> (gnus-replace-chars-in-string group ?/ ?. ?: ?. ?\\ ?. ?| ?.))
>
> doesn't solve the whole problem.
My feeling is that this is something that should be solved generally
in the Emacs OS/2 port -- there should be a file name translation
table of some sort that maps "illegal" characters into "legal" ones.
If there is absolutely no interest in doing something like that, I may
do a wrapper of some sort around the file name generation functions.
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* Re: Gnus 5.x, OS/2 and those pesky colons :(
1995-12-20 2:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1995-12-20 3:40 ` Roger Williams
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From: Roger Williams @ 1995-12-20 3:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> My feeling is that this is something that should be solved generally
> in the Emacs OS/2 port -- there should be a file name translation
> table of some sort that maps "illegal" characters into "legal" ones.
Presumably this has already become an issue on other platforms -- how
is this handled in VMS, for instance?
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