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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.


      reply	other threads:[~1996-09-07  2:00 UTC|newest]

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1996-09-07  1:34 Michael Harnois
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