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From: heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: mod.computers and rn save
Message-ID: <1692@cuae2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 18:13:13 EST
Article-I.D.: cuae2.1692
Posted: Mon Dec  2 18:13:13 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 05:44:53 EST
References: <389@mecc.UUCP>
Reply-To: heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby)
Organization: AT&T - /app/eng, Lisle, IL
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Keywords: rn computers 14 name

In article <389@mecc.UUCP> sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon) writes:
>In rn, saving an article from the mod.computers.* groups causes
>articles from all the subgroups to end up in the single file
>named "Mod.computers.".
>
>It seems notes isn't the only popular program affected by those long
>names on systems with 14-character file names.  (I know rn can save
>to other file names, but the issue is the normal behavior)

In fact a simple work-around, which I used even before the long group
names came about was the "-/" flag on the command line.  (I have it
as part of a ksh alias for rn.)  This flag makes the default save
directory structure match the structure of the spool directory.  I.e.,
saving article 123 in mod.computers.laser-printers would create the
file $HOME/News/mod/computers/laser-printers/123 with the article.
(Assuming you are using the default %p value.)
-- 
Ron Heiby {NAC|ihnp4}!cuae2!heiby   Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.unix
AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL	(312) 810-6109
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