RE: q0.12: agent dir names

RE: q0.12: agent dir names

[Brian Gorka]

Let me take back one of those smacks...

in .gnus:

;; No Colons to Filenames
(setq nnheader-file-name-translation-alist 
      '((?: . ?_)))

right from the docs of nnheader-file-name-translation-alist

     In fact, this is the default value for this variable on OS/2 and MS
     Windows (phooey) systems.

So I shouldn't have to set it, but I did anyway...


Group:
         8: nntp+news.zeno.com:zeno.support.superprint.standard.epson

Fetching headers for
nntp+news.zeno.com:zeno.support.superprint.standard.epson...
Creating directory: invalid argument,
d:/emacs/News/agent/nntp/news.zeno.com/nntp+news/zeno/com:zeno

note the nasty colon at the end.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Kai Grossjohann [SMTP:grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de]
>Sent:	Friday, October 10, 1997 10:24 AM
>To:	Brian Gorka
>Cc:	'Felix Lee'; 'ding@gnus.org'
>Subject:	Re: q0.12: agent dir names
>
>>>>>> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Brian Gorka said:
>
>  Brian> This syntax also does strange things under NT Emacs.  the :
>  Brian> is the drive letter separator and illegal for use in a
>  Brian> filename.  Makes the agent worthless under NT/95.
>
>What about nnheader-file-name-translation-alist?
>
>kai
>-- 
>~/.signature: No such file or directory

Re: q0.12: agent dir names

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Brian Gorka said:

  Brian> d:/emacs/News/agent/nntp/news.zeno.com/nntp+news/zeno/com:zeno

Seems like this variable isn't used in this case.  Is this a bug?
Prolly so.

kai
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~/.signature: No such file or directory

Re: q0.12: agent dir names

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

>   Brian> d:/emacs/News/agent/nntp/news.zeno.com/nntp+news/zeno/com:zeno
> 
> Seems like this variable isn't used in this case.  Is this a bug?
> Prolly so.

Yup.  Fix in Quassia Gnus v0.13.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: q0.12: agent dir names

[Felix Lee]

>   Felix>   ~/News/agent/nntp/news.foo.com/nntp+news/foo/com:alt/bar
> See the variable gnus-use-long-file-name.  I think.

nope.  it's hardwired.

(defun gnus-agent-group-path (group)
  "Translate GROUP into a path."
  (nnheader-replace-chars-in-string group ?. ?/))
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RE: q0.12: agent dir names

[Brian Gorka]

Brian repeatedly smacks himself around for not RTFM.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Kai Grossjohann [SMTP:grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de]
>Sent:	Friday, October 10, 1997 10:24 AM
>To:	Brian Gorka
>Cc:	'Felix Lee'; 'ding@gnus.org'
>Subject:	Re: q0.12: agent dir names
>
>>>>>> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Brian Gorka said:
>
>  Brian> This syntax also does strange things under NT Emacs.  the :
>  Brian> is the drive letter separator and illegal for use in a
>  Brian> filename.  Makes the agent worthless under NT/95.
>
>What about nnheader-file-name-translation-alist?
>
>kai
>-- 
>~/.signature: No such file or directory

Re: q0.12: agent dir names

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Brian Gorka said:

  Brian> This syntax also does strange things under NT Emacs.  the :
  Brian> is the drive letter separator and illegal for use in a
  Brian> filename.  Makes the agent worthless under NT/95.

What about nnheader-file-name-translation-alist?

kai
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~/.signature: No such file or directory

RE: q0.12: agent dir names

[Brian Gorka]

This syntax also does strange things under NT Emacs.  the : is the drive
letter separator and illegal for use in a filename.  Makes the agent
worthless under NT/95.  

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Felix Lee [SMTP:flee@teleport.com]
>Sent:	Friday, October 10, 1997 12:19 AM
>To:	ding@gnus.org
>Subject:	q0.12: agent dir names
>
>so I plug into the agent and start poking around and find
>it's doing silly things with my foreign group names.
>
>like the group
>  nntp+news.foo.com:alt.bar
>is stuffed into
>  ~/News/agent/nntp/news.foo.com/nntp+news/foo/com:alt/bar
>
>kinda ok, but kinda odd and pointless.
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Re: q0.12: agent dir names

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On Thu, 09 Oct 1997, Felix Lee said:

  Felix>   ~/News/agent/nntp/news.foo.com/nntp+news/foo/com:alt/bar

See the variable gnus-use-long-file-name.  I think.

kai
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~/.signature: No such file or directory

q0.12: agent dir names

[Felix Lee]

so I plug into the agent and start poking around and find
it's doing silly things with my foreign group names.

like the group
  nntp+news.foo.com:alt.bar
is stuffed into
  ~/News/agent/nntp/news.foo.com/nntp+news/foo/com:alt/bar

kinda ok, but kinda odd and pointless.
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