From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6254 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Incoming mail and on-the-fly compression Date: 19 May 1996 18:20:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146736 3055 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA18909 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 10:14:33 -0700 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 18:42:43 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 19 May 1996 18:42:42 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Richard Pieri's message of 14 May 1996 09:18:54 -0400 Original-Lines: 16 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.89/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6254 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6254 Richard Pieri 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."