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Robert Nicholson | 1 Nov 1996 02:15

OK Info-default-directory-list

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

OK, some folk suggested I try Info-default-directory-list

That doesn't work.

Right now I have.

root:/usr/local/info>ls -al localdir                                      20:06
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other       1420 Oct 30 23:51 localdir
root:/usr/local/info>    

root:/usr/local/info>cat localdir                                         20:09
-*- Text -*-

This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the Info
hierarchy.  The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at that node,
which is (dir)Top.

Rather than adding new nodes to this directory (and this file) it is a better
idea to put them in a site-local directory, and then configure info to search
in that directory as well.  That way, you won't have to re-edit this file when
a new release of the editor comes out.

For example, you could add this code to .../lisp/site-start.el, which is
loaded before ~/.emacs each time the editor starts up:

  ;; find local info nodes
  (setq Info-default-directory-list
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Robert Nicholson | 1 Nov 1996 03:55

Re: OK Info-default-directory-list

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

OK problem solved. I had an old INFOPATH envar kicking around that shouldn't
have been which was causing it to try to find dir in my /usr/local/info
directory.

Thanks to all those who responded.

Is it too late to order a Red GNUS shirt?

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Jon Kvebaek | 1 Nov 1996 11:38
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URL open "bug"

Might be old news, but Gnus is unable to handle urls of this type:

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,4966,00.html

It tries to open them incorrectly with Netscrape.

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Per Abrahamsen | 1 Nov 1996 12:16
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Re: URL open "bug"


Try to get the most recent vesion of `browse-url.el' from 

	<URL:http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/>

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Andy Eskilsson | 1 Nov 1996 14:05
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Passworded foreign groups..

A guy here tried to grab news from a foreign newsserver where some
groups were password protected, what happened when he started up gnus
was that it asked for password, no mention about group or for what
server this password was for, and then when he typed the wrong
password, gnus looped.. Will ask for backtrace next time.

Any1 tried it out?? Well at least when asking for password, maybe
mention to what it is?

	/Andy

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Kai Grossjohann | 1 Nov 1996 15:10
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writable NNTP server -- getting mail/news

Hi there,

I'm writing a backend for a `writable NNTP server', ie an NNTP server
which also groks a few additional commands for moving message from one
group to another, for deleting messages and the like.

I've hacked together a Gnus backend for this which kinda works.  But
what it can't do now is getting new mail.  (Actually, it uses the nnml
function for this, but that's a kludge.)

I've read nnmail-get-new-mail and I see that I seem to have to write a
couple of functions that save 1 article in a given group and the like,
but I'm not sure if I've overlooked something.

The server knows about the command XACCEPT which puts an article into
the current group.  (Similar to POST but doesn't complain about
duplicate message id's.)

What functions do I need to implement for the backend to be able to
get new mail?

kai
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Kai Grossjohann | 1 Nov 1996 15:09
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writable NNTP server -- getting mail/news

Hi there,

I'm writing a backend for a `writable NNTP server', ie an NNTP server
which also groks a few additional commands for moving message from one
group to another, for deleting messages and the like.

I've hacked together a Gnus backend for this which kinda works.  But
what it can't do now is getting new mail.  (Actually, it uses the nnml
function for this, but that's a kludge.)

I've read nnmail-get-new-mail and I see that I seem to have to write a
couple of functions that save 1 article in a given group and the like,
but I'm not sure if I've overlooked something.

The server knows about the command XACCEPT which puts an article into
the current group.  (Similar to POST but doesn't complain about
duplicate message id's.)

What functions do I need to implement for the backend to be able to
get new mail?

kai
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Robert Nicholson | 1 Nov 1996 15:36

Red .53 and TM 7.93 (any problems?)

I'm about to sit down and try to add Mime via TM to my GNUS setup.

Are there any issues with tm 7.93 and Red GNUS .53 that I need to be 
aware about?

I don't use (but my plan to) topic mode.
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Michael Welsh Duggan | 1 Nov 1996 16:18

Re: Aargh! Fonts.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> ifi.uio.no> writes:

> 
> Well, I've finally found a cyrillic font, but it can't be strected as
> freely as "normal" fonts, so it's impossible to get the lines to be of
> equal length, it seems.  It's really annoying.
> 
> Does anybody here know anything about LaTeX fonts, or even better --
> some other program that'll let me fiddle with fonts and stuff to do
> whatever I want to?

You can try messing with some of the larger JIS-X-208 fonts.  These
contain the cyrilic alphabet and there are public domain 48x48 pixel
version.  

On the other hand, I have a TrueType JIS-X-208 font that scales really
well.  I can send gifs of them in 72pt or some such.

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Steinar Bang | 1 Nov 1996 16:50
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Re: writable NNTP server -- getting mail/news

>>>>> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann <at> charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>:

> I'm writing a backend for a `writable NNTP server', ie an NNTP
> server which also groks a few additional commands for moving message
> from one group to another, for deleting messages and the like.

Hmm... sounds like a good starter for an IMAP backend...?
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