From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1416 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Lewis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Score files in directories? Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:43:57 -0800 Message-ID: References: <84of93kuqr.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668195 11207 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:07 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: marge.cs.sfu.ca Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1036612284 7174 199.60.3.71 (6 Nov 2002 19:51:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Nov 2002 19:51:24 GMT X-Attribution: Benjamin Lewis X-Yow: Content: 80% POLYESTER, 20% DACRON.. The waitress's UNIFORM sheds TARTAR SAUCE like an 8'' by 10'' GLOSSY.. User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oan4c/6diydkVIXUnSAc9W0qXUA= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1556 Original-Lines: 35 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1556 Tue Jan 17 17:29:07 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1416 Archived-At: On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote: > Benjamin Lewis 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