From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14175 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dubach@dcepea.harvard.edu (Joev Dubach) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: AUTHINFO Date: 18 Feb 1998 21:21:12 -0500 Organization: Not likely. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153411 13390 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:36:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:36:51 +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 SAA19941 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:39:24 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA00017 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:37:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAN11712; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:56:17 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:19:23 -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 UAA02957 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:19:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12329 invoked by uid 504); 19 Feb 1998 02:19:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12326 invoked from network); 19 Feb 1998 02:19:09 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (qmailr@130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 1998 02:19:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14692 invoked by uid 509); 19 Feb 1998 02:19:06 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dcepea.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 887854745 14217 (None) 140.247.197.195 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.66/XEmacs 19.14 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14175 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14175 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Per Abrahamsen writes: >> BTW: "rc" stands for "run commands" and means "commands to run when >> the interpreter is started". Is that really appropriate for the >> authinforc file? > Perhaps not, but .netrc is called .netrc even if the commands aren't > really "run" there either. Dunno. I can rename all the authinforc > things to authinfo (or something else). Whaddayousay, people? .newsrc also contains data, and not commands. The historical derivation of "rc" isn't particularly relevant when its current meaning is "configuration information for various software". In other words, go ahead and name it .authinforc. Another reason is that it's more likely that people already have a file called ".authinfo" with a different syntax, which we'd rather not force them to clobber. (Or work around with another variable setting.) Joev "I can still remember the first time I went to my (then) inlaws for the holiday family gathering. The custom was for the wimmin to gather in the kitchen and swap gossip while drinking tea or coffee or soda, while the min lounged about in front of the TV in the living room, drinking beer, scratching themselves, and speaking concisely using monosyllabic grunts. I wound up pulling out a paperback novel, at which point the conversation went something like this. 'Not a football fan, Dave?' 'Nope.' 'Do you understand how the game is played?' 'Ayuh. Nail that sonuvvabitch carrying the ball.' 'He knows it, all right.'" -- Dave Locke