From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14207 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Opening gnus unplugged Date: 20 Feb 1998 15:10:46 +0000 Organization: none Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153437 13546 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:37:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24004 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:21:30 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA17669 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:19:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAH10021; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:19:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:19:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA10005 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:19:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22123 invoked by uid 504); 20 Feb 1998 23:19:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22120 invoked from network); 20 Feb 1998 23:19:07 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 1998 23:19:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17131 invoked by uid 509); 20 Feb 1998 23:19:04 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pm3-29.sba1.avtel.net Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 888016743 17128 (None) 207.71.218.221 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Quassia Gnus v0.29/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14207 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14207 According to the info pages on 'unplugged', all that is needed is to insert (gnus-agentize) in .gnus, and start Gnus with M-x gnus-unplugged. This is not working for me so tried the techniques posted here. M-x load-library gnus-agent Then M-x gnus-unplugged Message from minibuffer: >nntp (enews.newsguy.com) open error: No such file or directory >continue (y or n) Of course if I say no then the session is over. If I say yes then: >Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it? (y or n) Either 'y or n' will produce this: Wrong type argument: stringp, nnagent-active-file Back trace: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nnagent-active-file) insert-file-contents(nnagent-active-file) byte-code("ÁÄ !ˆ*Ƈ" [nnmail-file-coding-system binary pathname-coding-system coding-system-for-read insert-file-contents file t] 2) nnmail-find-file(nnagent-active-file) nnml-request-list() nnmail-activate(nnml) nnml-request-create-group("drafts" "" nil) apply(nnml-request-create-group ("drafts" "" nil)) nnoo-parent-function(nnagent nnml-request-create-group ("drafts" "" nil)) nnagent-request-create-group("drafts" "" nil) gnus-request-create-group("drafts" (nndraft "")) gnus-start-draft-setup() byte-code("„ gnus-1(nil nil nil) gnus() gnus-unplugged() call-interactively(gnus-unplugged) execute-extended-command(nil) * call-interactively(execute-extended-command) -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com