Re: pipe filter output to file?

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> writes:

  > No joy, Kai.  I understand that vertical bar to mean M-|, yes?  I get
  > 'There is no region now'.  If I use | without Meta, I get 'Wrong type
  > argument: stringp nil'.  I also tried marking all articles first, but that
  > didn't help either.

I typed `|', I meant `|' :-)  What does C-h c | tell you when typed in
a Gnus summary buffer?  For me, it says it runs the command
gnus-summary-pipe-output.  If it is different for you, that might be a
problem. 

I use that command and a shell script `gnusprint' all the time for
printing articles from Gnus, so I'm *pretty* sure `|' works for me.

Just for fun, could you `emacs -q -no-site-file' then start Gnus then
see whether `|' works.  The `-q' means don't load ~/.emacs, the
`-no-site-file' means don't load site-start.el.  Omitting one of the
two arguments loads the respective file, this way you can narrow down
where the problem might be.

(For starting Gnus in `emacs -q -no-site-file' you might have to do
some setup by hand, such as setting the nntp server and stuff.  Try to
keep that to a minimum, though.)

kai
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