Re: Score files in directories?

[Benjamin Lewis <bclewis@cs.sfu.ca>]

On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Benjamin Lewis <bclewis@cs.sfu.ca> writes:
> 
>> Occasionally when I add scores they are placed in a directory structure
>> instead of in files in my ~/News directory.  For example, if I add a
>> score to my "all" score file it will go into ~/News/all/SCORE instead of
>> ~/News/all.SCORE.
> 
> M-x apropos RET long.*file.*nam RET will find the variables
> responsible for this.  I think the default setting is questionable,
> since it does one thing for SysV-ish systems and another thing for
> BSD-ish systems, and I think people will be surprised that moving
> from Linux to FreeBSD (say) means they can't use their ~/News
> directory anymore, unless they frob the variable.
> 
> At least, Gnus should emit a warning if there are files for the
> "wrong" convention.
> 
> Or maybe it should just read both kinds of files and write the right
> kind of file and delete the wrong kind of file.

Urgh.  Thanks.  I've been using Gnus both from a Linux box and on a Sun
machine.  On the latter gnus-use-long-filenames was being set to `nil',
whereas on the former it was `t'.  How annoying.

Now I can go merge my score files...

Thanks again,

-- 
Benjamin Lewis

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