Re: Score files in directories?

Re: Score files in directories?

[Kai Großjohann]

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.

kai
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Re: Score files in directories?

[Benjamin Lewis]

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

Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
                -- Walt Kelly