From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15979 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Change from unix files to 'long-file-names' Date: 11 Aug 1998 16:48:42 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154924 25121 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA02917 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:22:27 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07948 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAS01338; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:51:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA01669 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:51:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from beach.silcom.com (beach.silcom.com [199.201.128.19]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00737 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:51:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from Chub.local (pm1-26.sba1.avtel.net [207.71.218.76]) by beach.silcom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA00432 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.28/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15979 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15979 Just wondering what kind of problems I might cause my self if after several months of accumulating mail in unix style directories: /Mail/mail/junk. I now want to set `nnmail-use-long-file-names' to 't' . How will gnus handle the change? Just create a new set of files? Do I have to move things manually to the new setup? -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com