Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!drivax!drivax!davison From: davison@dri.com (Wayne Davison) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: trn refuses to use threads Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 90 00:07:57 GMT References: <7340@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <378@stephsf.stephsf.com> Sender: news@dri.com (USENET News System) Followup-To: news.software.b Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA Lines: 18 Bill England (wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com) wrote: > The extension 'problem' can be reduced if you change the suffix > to something smaller. I'm now using a suffix of '.' :-) Another solution (that I plan to add sometime in the future) is to capitalize the thread file name to differentiate it from a conflicting directory name. > I'm curious about the db naming method that nn uses? Does nn > even suffer from this problem? No, nn numbers its groups, and thus must keep a database of groups names in the proper order. I didn't want to keep the newsgroups in any particular order (other than the active file order), so I'm trying to avoid using nn's solution to the problem. -- \ /| / /|\/ /| /(_) Wayne Davison (_)/ |/ /\|/ / |/ \ davison@dri.com (W A Y N e) ...!uunet!drivax!davison