From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11665 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: compatibility of nnml and MH Date: 16 Jul 1997 17:40:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <199707160531.BAA21674@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151337 31742 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:02:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA09672 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:52:38 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA17082 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:50:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:41:35 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 9450 invoked by uid 504); 16 Jul 1997 16:41:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9447 invoked from network); 16 Jul 1997 16:41:25 -0000 Original-Received: from eogwama-d.cs.ucl.ac.uk (HELO typhoon.ncc.co.uk) (zcaceog@128.16.32.73) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 1997 16:41:24 -0000 Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by typhoon.ncc.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA26924; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:40:18 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Richard Coleman's message of "Wed, 16 Jul 1997 01:31:52 -0400" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.63/XEmacs 20.2 Original-Lines: 27 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:2055 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11665 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11665 Richard Coleman writes: > > Actually this depends on how many articles you have had in a group > > overall. If nnmh has writes article numbers above 9999 then mh will > > not see the numbers correctly. It will put a ? into the number scheme. > > > > There was some discussion about re-numbering articles in nnm? groups a > > while back but I don't remember the outcome. > > This is not completely true. MH/nmh have no arbitrary limit > at 9999 and came handle messages with numbers above this. > But the default format which MH/nmh uses to represent messages > when outputing to screen only allocates space for 4 digit in the > message name. So the display may not be correct if a message > name is higher than 9999. This can be fixed by changing the > format to use 5 digits, or pack the folder. Packing won't work if you actually do have more than 9999 articles in the folder though. I didn't know I could change the default format but I've had a look at the mh-format man page. -- Eze Ogwuma