From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54053 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Saving attachments with a leading dot Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:16:34 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4n1xu6ckqx.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nsmmm9nsd.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064420306 18152 80.91.224.253 (24 Sep 2003 16:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2593@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 24 18:18:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2CLO-0004aG-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:18:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A2CKI-0006uq-00; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:17:14 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A2CKE-0006ul-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.epost.de (unknown [193.28.100.165]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 951283A004C for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:17:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 3F48BE29003B3FF1 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:17:08 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <4nsmmm9nsd.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:03:30 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54053 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54053 Hi Ted, > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de wrote: >> This results in the filename "\nrm somefile" (in C literal syntax). Ted Zlatanov writes: > I'd say Gnus should warn the user and offer an alternative, but > allow saving this file since there are legitimate cases where it can > be useful. Can you name a legitimate case? Just curious here, because I can't. benny