From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9819 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Simms Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pop mailboxes Date: 05 Feb 1997 01:01:50 -0800 Sender: dsimms@ba.alink.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149786 20737 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:36:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA14635 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 01:28:39 -0800 Original-Received: from alink.net (ns.alink.net [207.135.127.66]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 10:02:46 +0100 Original-Received: from yoyo.alink.net (dsimms@ba.alink.net [207.135.127.69]) by alink.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA26488 for ding@ifi.uio.no; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 01:02:44 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 05 Feb 1997 02:41:08 +0100 Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.82/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9819 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9819 >>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: LMI> So I'm unable to reproduce this bug. What Emacs version are LMI> you using? It only works if the directory in question is /host:file, say if your current directory is "/" (as Paul suggested), or if someone let default-directory to "/". In the debugger before the culprit file-directory-p is entered, I checked on default-directory and it is "/". I can't figure out where default-directory is set to "/" (otherwise I would just send you a patch and not waste your time ...ok, I *would* send you a patch and then waste your time on something else)). D> Entering: D> * file-directory-p("po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms.alink.net:*") D> * #[(file) "\300 !\203\n^@\302 !\207 C\207" [file-directory-p fi D> * mapcar(#[(file) "\300 !\203\n^@\302 !\207 C\207" [file-directory-p fi D> * byte-code("^H\205\334^@\301\n!\205)^@^H\303=\204^T^@\f\205)^@\305\n\306^N D> * nnmail-get-spool-files(nil) D> nnmail-get-new-mail(nnmh nil "~/Mail/" nil) D> nnmh-request-scan(nil "") D> gnus-request-scan(nil (nnmh "")) D> gnus-read-active-file() D> gnus-group-get-new-news(nil) D> * call-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news) D> Eval: default-directory D> => "/" Whee! -- Daniel Simms There is more than one way to burn a book. dsimms@alink.net And the world is full of people running (408) 720-6161 about with lit matches. -Ray Bradbury