bug#8681: 23.3; (gnus-face-from-file ...) bug in Gnus v5.13 on GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3

[Benjamin L. Russell]

On Fri, 7/1/11, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> "Benjamin L. Russell" <dekudekuplex@yahoo.com>
> writes:
> 
> > Okay; that resulted in a PNG file.
> 
> So everything works.  :-)
> 
> Are you sure the problem isn't that the ~ isn't expanded
> properly?  In
> the tests you're using C:, but in the original report
> you're using ~...
> 
> (gnus-face-from-file "~/butterflyLang.jpg")

Entering 

  M-: (gnus-face-from-file "~/butterflyLang.jpg")

and 

  M-: (gnus-face-from-file "C:/home/butterflyLang.jpg")

resulted in 

  nil

from Emacs in each case.

-- Benjamin L. Russell