From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Incoming mail and on-the-fly compression
Date: 19 May 1996 18:20:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x6wx28eiti.fsf@eyesore.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Richard Pieri's message of 14 May 1996 09:18:54 -0400
Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:
> I just stumbled into a nasty gotcha, a conflict between Gnus (probably
> any version) and any on-the-fly file compression hooks. This morning,
> the code that pulls the system mailbox into a local Incoming file
> created a file called 'Incominga003.Z'. The problem should be apparant:
> the '.Z' "extension" gets the file flagged as compressed, so the
> compression code tries to decompress it; since it is not compressed,
> this fails.
I didn't know that `make-temp-name' creates names like that. What
system is this on?
--
"Yes. The journey through the human heart
would have to wait until some other time."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-05-19 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-14 13:18 Richard Pieri
1996-05-19 16:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1996-05-20 1:16 ` Richard Pieri
1996-05-20 19:16 ` Mark Borges
1996-05-20 21:35 ` Stephen Peters
1996-05-20 22:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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