From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35765 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Quimby Upgrade Date: 12 Apr 2001 07:53:23 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20010410162812.7343.qmail@nightshade.la.mastaler.com> <87g0fg56fb.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <20010411052354.D46053@kens.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171453 4790 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:37:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 24023 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2001 14:53:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24018 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2001 14:53:25 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (209.144.112.246) by gnus.org with SMTP; 12 Apr 2001 14:53:25 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17626 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2001 14:53:34 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO reader.local.lan) (209.144.117.151) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 12 Apr 2001 14:53:34 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3CErOV15878; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 07:53:24 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "11 Apr 2001 23:17:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35765 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35765 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > But maybe I was just lucky to have circumvented all the pitfalls? It > seems that I am that way sometimes. Don't know why. Others discover > plenty of bugs, for me it just works. Viz, Emacs 20.2 running in a > Latin-1 locale and the infamous \201 characters -- I didn't have too > many problems with those. We can't really count Kais experiences. Kai has been known to get FreeWAIS to work too. That alone should tell us we're not dealing with a regular mortal here. I have been known to suffer from the `pinhead' syndrome at times. Seems to be brought on by heavy bouts of manual reading. The cranial bone begins to thicken in self defense. Trying to protect itself. The only known cure for chronic `pinhead syndorome' is EasyLinux.