* Sven Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > 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.
Reply to my own question: After extended searching with "apropos" using search expressions like "group-name" or "name" OR "colon" etc. I found a working solution: I had to set this in my .gnus (needed for cygwin, but normally not for Linux): (setq nnheader-file-name-translation-alist '((?: . ?_))) As one can see, " : " is replaced by " _ " in file names. Hopefully, nothing else will break now. Sven _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
