Re: gnus-use-long-filenames

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> My understanding is that in order to use 'agent' successfully,
> gnus-use-long-filenames must be set to 'nil'

No, that shouldn't be necessary.  (Well, there isn't such a variable,
but there is `gnus-use-long-file-name', which I guess is what you
mean.) 

> I understand from snippets and hints from Lars, that this can be
> arranged where the score files are in long file name format.  Making
> this search take considerable less time.  And further that this is
> explained somewhere in the Gnus Info.

`C-h v' is your friend:

---------
gnus-use-long-file-name's value is t

Documentation:
*Non-nil means that the default name of a file to save articles in is the group name.
If it's nil, the directory form of the group name is used instead.

If this variable is a list, and the list contains the element
`not-score', long file names will not be used for score files; if it
contains the element `not-save', long file names will not be used for
saving; and if it contains the element `not-kill', long file names
will not be used for kill files.

Note that the default for this variable varies according to what system
type you're using.  On `usg-unix-v' and `xenix' this variable defaults
to nil while on all other systems it defaults to t.
----------

So if you set this to `(not-score)', you'll get long file names for
everything but score files, which is the opposite of what you want.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen