From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4527 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus 5.x, OS/2 and those pesky colons :( Date: 20 Dec 1995 03:53:49 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <9512160635.AA0954@sturgeon.coelacanth.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145263 29958 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:21:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA10659 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:17:22 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 03:53:51 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 03:53:50 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Roger Williams's message of Sat, 16 Dec 95 01:35:31 -0500 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4527 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4527 Roger Williams 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.