From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6280 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Peters Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Incoming mail and on-the-fly compression Date: 20 May 1996 14:35:09 -0700 Sender: speters@us.oracle.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146760 3171 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:46:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:46:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA12726 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 15:05:21 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com (inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com [192.86.155.81]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 23:35:21 +0200 Original-Received: from oracle.us.oracle.com by inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/37.7) id OAA07335; Mon, 20 May 1996 14:35:12 -0700 Original-Received: from samsun.us.oracle.com by oracle.us.oracle.com with ESMTP (8.6.9/37.7) id OAA02201; Mon, 20 May 1996 14:35:11 -0700 Original-Received: by samsun.us.oracle.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA06636; Mon, 20 May 1996 14:35:10 -0700 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Mark Borges's message of 20 May 1996 13:16:51 -0600 Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.80/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6280 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6280 Mark Borges writes: > >> On 19 May 1996 21:16:45 -0400, > >> Richard Pieri(rp) wrote: > >>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > LMI> I didn't know that `make-temp-name' creates names like that. What > LMI> system is this on? > > rp> Sparc Sun Solaris 2.5, XEmacs 19.13, Gnus 5.0.15. > > Sparc Sun Solaris 2.5, XEmacs 19.14, sgnus-0.89 > > doesn't: > > (make-temp-name "foo") ==> "fooa005QB" Actually, it probably does. Because make-temp-name uses the mktemp() function (in Emacs 19, and I would assume in XEmacs as well), this is kind of system-specific. On Solaris 2.5, it appears that the set of characters used for those last 6 positions can include both the period (.) and the underscore (_) characters as well as the alphanumeric characters (bringing the number of characters used to 64 -- probably for efficiency considerations). On the other hand, the GNU C library only uses letters and digits in its implementation. I will leave the behavior of other systems as an exercise for the reader. In short, on some machines it's quite possible to see temp files ending in ".Z" or ".gz", or even any other special one- or two-character extension. -- Stephen L. Peters speters%samsun@us.oracle.com For PGP key, use keyservers or send email with subject: SEND PGP KEY PGP fingerprint: BFA4 D0CF 8925 08AE 0CA5 CCDD 343D 6AC6 Oracle won't speak for me, so I won't speak for them.