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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> nicene@bigfoot.com (Andie) writes:
> 
> > Windows doesn't permit files with ":" in the filename and the score
> > file for foreign servers contains the character. As a result, whenever 
> > Gnus tries to save score customisation for a foreign group, it
> > hangs. Emacs for Win32 doesn't have the problem as the score file uses 
> > "_" instead of ":".
> 
> Hmmm. This seems more like a gnus problem to me. Do you mean that
> NTEmacs, mangles filenames automatically? From what I can see gnus
> doesn't seem to use any special code for NTEmacs here.

If Gnus is used under Win32 this is required:

(setq nnheader-file-name-translation-alist '((?: . ?_)
                                             (?+ . ?-)))

OTOH this should be the default for theese systems -- so make sure the
variable contain the proper value.

The check is

        (string-match "windows-nt\\|os/2\\|emx" (symbol-name system-type))

would that evaluate to true on a Windows 95/98 system, I wonder?