From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
Date: 20 Nov 1997 12:23:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kighg97hkre.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "20 Nov 1997 12:18:27 +0100"
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> >>>>> On 20 Nov 1997, Hrvoje Niksic said:
>
> Hrvoje> Every time I accidentally start up the netscape news/mail
> Hrvoje> reader (e.g. by inadvertently clicking on a mailto: URL), it
> Hrvoje> creates a `.newsrc-bagan.srce.hr' file in my home directory,
> Hrvoje> `bagan.srce.hr' being my news server.
>
> Why don't you just rename all .newsrc* files to
> .newsrc-bagan.srce.hr*? Gnus will read them, Netscape won't create a
> new one, Bob's your uncle. No?
No. I *want* my `.newsrc.eld' to be called just that. There are
host aliases like `news.carnet.hr', etc. I want to just use the
standard name, without the extension.
The named extension is stupid anyway, as my .newsrc.eld contains a
bunch of mail and foreign groups.
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
"A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even
as its crockishness appalls."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-20 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-20 9:12 Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-20 11:10 ` Andy Eskilsson
1997-11-20 11:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-11-20 11:23 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1997-11-20 14:12 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-11-20 15:35 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-24 21:06 ` Dave Love
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