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From: Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Problem with SOUP packing files
Date: 14 Feb 1997 19:53:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sznraijp3ky.fsf@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 14 Feb 1997 10:28:10 +0100

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> 
> Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > I'm using SOUP to transfer stuff between machines. Each time I've used 
> > G-s-p to pack the SOUP files on the server, Gnus has exited with the 
> > message "Couldn't pack packet". A tgz file has been left in my home 
> > directory but the files in ~/SoupBrew are not deleted.
> 
> This means that the packing shell command is not returning 0, for some
> reason:
> 
>     (if (zerop (call-process shell-file-name
> 			     nil nil nil shell-command-switch 
> 			     (concat "cd " dir " ; " packer)))
> 	(progn
> 	  (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil shell-command-switch 
> 			(concat "cd " dir " ; rm " files))
> 	  (gnus-message 4 "Packing...done" packer))
>       (error "Couldn't pack packet."))))
> 
> Perhaps you use a wonky shell?
> 

What is the default Gnus 5.3 shell packing command?

Eze.


  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-02-14 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-02-12 23:53 Eze Ogwuma
1997-02-14  9:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-14 15:21   ` Eze Ogwuma
1997-02-14 19:53   ` Eze Ogwuma [this message]
1997-02-19  2:17 ` Eze Ogwuma

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