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Re: invalid argument, when auto-saving mails every minute


From: Peter
Subject: Re: invalid argument, when auto-saving mails every minute
Date: 24 May 2004 10:11:33 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Hamster/2.0.0.1

Hi Lars,

> Peter <peter@laposte.net> writes:
> > Emacs/Gnus tries to auto-save mails and news every minute. But it fails,
> > stating (for this post):
> >
> >     Auto-saving *news on gnu.emacs.gnus*: Opening output file:
> >     invalid argument, c:/peter/auto-save/#*news on gnu.emacs.gnus*#
> >
> > I guess it's because of the spaces in the filename it creates.
> 
> Hm.  Really?  I didn't know there were any OS-es that couldn't have
> spaces in file names.

Just a question of missing double quotes around the filename argument?
[I'm working on Win XP]


> Are you sure that the c:/peter/auto-save/ directory exists?

Yes, definitely.

Best regards,
  Peter


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