From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18460 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeremy Zawodny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Sharing GNUS between NT/Linux Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:41:52 -0500 (EST) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156980 6279 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:36:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28649 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:39:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB14229; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:39:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 09 Nov 1998 08:39:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA22373 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:39:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from woody.wcnet.org (woody.wcnet.org [205.133.171.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28641 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:39:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (jzawodn@localhost) by woody.wcnet.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA09967; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:41:53 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18460 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18460 Here's the situation (and I'm hoping that someone has done this before)... I have a machine with Linux and NT installed. Linux is recent addition. I was using Emacs/GNUS on NT just fine. I had my home directory variable in NT set to "M:\" so that my "Mail/", "News/", ".gnus", and other related files/directories were all there. (M:\ is a backed-up network dirve and my workstation is *not*, so I put everything there.) Now I'm running Under Linux part of the time and I'd like to use that same files that I was under NT. Under Linux, I have mounted my "M:\" drive as "~/M/" thanks to smbmount. :-) I *believe* that .gnus, .newsrc.eld, Mail, News, and so on should be (and can be) shared. My .emacs file will *not* be shared between NT and Linux, so what I'm looking for are the necessary settings to put in my Linux .emacs so that Gnus will know to find everything it needs in "~/M/" instead of in "~/" I've checked the Gnus manual and found *many*variables which contain "dir" in their names. It appears as if I need to force several of to the new value(s) in my Linux .emacs file. Have I missed something? Is there a "global" setting I can make so that all Gnus components just figure it out? Should this work eventually? I'll summarize if there's interest. Thanks for any help, Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny Web Geek, Perl Hacker, etc. http://www.wcnet.org/~jzawodn/ jzawodn@wcnet.org LOAD "LINUX",8,1