From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Subject: Re: some still bad
Date: 06 Sep 1996 19:00:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wwy73wzd.fsf@deanna.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Michael Harnois's message of 06 Sep 1996 20:34:49 -0500
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:
Michael> Alas, alack, and ah, s*&# ... as of 0.27 read-active-file
Michael> 'some still exhibits the same misbehavior on native nntp
Michael> groups ... I know you're getting tired of hearing about this
Michael> ...
The test for whether an nntp server groks LIST ACTIVE group is bogus.
The workaround for now is to hardcode the test:
(setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil)
On another note ...
The following patch is one way to fix the gnus-make-directory botch:
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/gnus-util.el,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 gnus-util.el
--- gnus-util.el 1996/09/05 19:00:59 1.10
+++ gnus-util.el 1996/09/06 05:39:07
@@ -538,10 +538,11 @@
(defun gnus-make-directory (directory)
"Make DIRECTORY (and all its parents) if it doesn't exist."
- (when (not (file-exists-p directory))
+ (if (file-exists-p directory)
+ t
(make-directory directory t)
t))
-
+
(provide 'gnus-util)
;;; gnus-util.el ends here
--
steve@miranova.com baur
Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be billed at $250/message.
What are the last two letters of "doesn't" and "can't"?
Coincidence? I think not.
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