From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23067 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Blauberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sharing .newsrc.eld files Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:15:13 GMT Organization: SunSITE Denmark (sunsite.auc.dk) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ogjg83oq.fsf@scampy.rossfell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160870 32529 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA21777 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 09:16:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB07164; Thu, 27 May 1999 08:16:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 27 May 1999 08:16:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA16595 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 08:16:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA21756 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 09:15:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 10195 invoked by uid 509); 27 May 1999 13:15:14 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) Emacs/20.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.214.43.186 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 927810913 128.214.43.186 (Thu, 27 May 1999 15:15:13 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:15:13 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23067 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23067 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes: > Please note that the variable is a bit fragile. You must not have any > part of Gnus loaded when you set the variable. Did you start a fresh > Emacs to test this, and did you put the setq early enough in the > .emacs file? Yes, I did this. I evaluated the expression in the scratch buffer, later I put the setq in the top of my .emacs. There is just no difference in the outcome. It seems that the .newsrc.eld is not read from the alternate location. > > I think you should start by getting the local part working, then worry > about the ange-ftp part only when the local part works. > > I haven't actually tested any of this, though. But > gnus-home-directory is documented to do what I said, so if it doesn't, > that must be a bug and maybe it should be reported? This most likely a bug. Kai > > kai > -- > Abort this operation? [Abort] [Cancel] > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kai Blauberg Email: kai.blauberg@metla.fi Finnish Forest Research Institute WWW: http://www.metla.fi/ Unioninkatu 40 A Tel.: +358-9-857 05 1 FIN-00170 Helsinki Fax: +358-9-857 05 717