From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12567 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gorkab@sanchez.com (Brian Gorka) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: RE: q0.12: agent dir names Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:19:55 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152080 4464 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:14:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "'Felix Lee'" , "'ding@gnus.org'" Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13702 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:24:41 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA15760 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:17:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:19:01 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 26867 invoked by uid 504); 10 Oct 1997 16:18:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26864 invoked from network); 10 Oct 1997 16:18:55 -0000 Original-Received: from net.sanchez.com (206.7.38.252) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 1997 16:18:55 -0000 Original-Received: from oz.sanchez.com ([140.140.1.251]) by net.sanchez.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-0U10) with SMTP id AAC186 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: by oz.sanchez.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52) id <01BCD576.D259A9C0@oz.sanchez.com>; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:19:57 -0400 Original-To: "'Kai Grossjohann'" X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12567 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12567 Let me take back one of those smacks... in .gnus: ;; No Colons to Filenames (setq nnheader-file-name-translation-alist '((?: . ?_))) right from the docs of nnheader-file-name-translation-alist In fact, this is the default value for this variable on OS/2 and MS Windows (phooey) systems. So I shouldn't have to set it, but I did anyway... Group: 8: nntp+news.zeno.com:zeno.support.superprint.standard.epson Fetching headers for nntp+news.zeno.com:zeno.support.superprint.standard.epson... Creating directory: invalid argument, d:/emacs/News/agent/nntp/news.zeno.com/nntp+news/zeno/com:zeno note the nasty colon at the end. >-----Original Message----- >From: Kai Grossjohann [SMTP:grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de] >Sent: Friday, October 10, 1997 10:24 AM >To: Brian Gorka >Cc: 'Felix Lee'; 'ding@gnus.org' >Subject: Re: q0.12: agent dir names > >>>>>> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Brian Gorka said: > > Brian> This syntax also does strange things under NT Emacs. the : > Brian> is the drive letter separator and illegal for use in a > Brian> filename. Makes the agent worthless under NT/95. > >What about nnheader-file-name-translation-alist? > >kai >-- >~/.signature: No such file or directory