From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15698 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: file name to group name and article number? Date: 21 Jul 1998 18:44:08 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154684 23508 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:58:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA10273 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:51:27 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24510 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:47:50 -0400 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 LAS04883; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:44:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA02390 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:44:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03915 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:44:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id SAA23206 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:44:09 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id SAA11970; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:44:08 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.24/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15698 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15698 Suppose I've got a file name, /home/kai/Mail/mail/misc/42, say. And suppose further I know what backend this file must come from -- '(nnml "") in this case. Is there a standard way of converting such a file name to a group name and an article number? Right now I'm manually stripping off a prefix and the article number and converting from "/" to ".", but I can't be doing The Right Thing (tm), can I? kai -- You ate somebody? -- Just a leg. -- That's terrible! -- Not with mustard. (Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times)