Hi, after a longer period of inactivity in usenet, I decided to dig out Gnus again. I installed it in Linux and in Windows (as a native windows program and under cygwin, too). My News directory is on a windows vfat partition (in the home directory of my cygwin use). I also symlinked this News directory to my Linux user's home directory, and some other files like .emacs, .gnus, .newsrc and .newsrc.eld.
This appeared to work, but soon I was facing an annoying problem: vfat doesn't accept a colon ( : ) in file names or directory names! An underscore ( _ ) is possible, though. Thus group names such as: nntp+news.gnus.org:gnus.ding are not possible, in cygwin they appear as: nntp+news.gnus.org_gnus.ding Which means, they get an underscore instead of a colon. If I try to open such groups in Linux, however (using an ext3 file system there), I get an "invalid group" error message! I have to edit the group properties and replace the colon by an underscore. But what is even more annoying, I cannot move interesting posts to the articles cache, because again Gnus wants to create a directory name with a colon, which is disallowed on vfat! Now my question is: What can be done to share my news folders hierarchy between Windows and Linux? What I do not want to do is: copy the Windows News hierarchy to my Linux home directory each time I switch between the operating systems. I do not want to give up vfat for the windows partition either. In fact, I absolutely want to use the symlink method, so I asked myself (and now ask you): Isn't it possible to change the way Gnus creates group names, by making Gnus no longer use a colon but an underscore. Since I am no expert in Gnus or lisp or coding in general, I couldn't find any place in the Gnus help system or in "apropos" etc. where I could change the way Gnus creates news folder names. And I also ask you: If indeed it is possible to achieve the above, will it break something unexpected. Is it _vital_ or fundamental to use the "colon" in file names creation? thanks for any useful hints Sven _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
