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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
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"A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even
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