From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: Gnus 5.x, OS/2 and those pesky colons :(
Date: 20 Dec 1995 03:53:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8sag4oqwci.fsf@surt.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Roger Williams's message of Sat, 16 Dec 95 01:35:31 -0500
Roger Williams <roger@coelacanth.com> writes:
> I'm stuck using OS/2 instead of Linux a lot these days.
> Unfortunately, OS/2 is unable to handle certain Gnus 5.x capabilities,
> such as foreign groups, because of its inability to deal with ":"
> characters in file names. Fixing gnus-newsgroup-saveable-name:
>
> (defun gnus-newsgroup-saveable-name (group)
> (gnus-replace-chars-in-string group ?/ ?. ?: ?. ?\\ ?. ?| ?.))
>
> doesn't solve the whole problem.
My feeling is that this is something that should be solved generally
in the Emacs OS/2 port -- there should be a file name translation
table of some sort that maps "illegal" characters into "legal" ones.
If there is absolutely no interest in doing something like that, I may
do a wrapper of some sort around the file name generation functions.
--
Home is where the cat is.
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1995-12-16 6:35 Roger Williams
1995-12-20 2:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1995-12-20 3:40 ` Roger Williams
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