;;; nnspool.el --- spool access for GNU Emacs
-;; Copyright (C) 1988,89,90,93,94,95 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+;; Copyright (C) 1988-1990, 1993-1998, 2000-2013 Free Software
+;; Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Masanobu UMEDA <umerin@flab.flab.fujitsu.junet>
-;; Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
+;; Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
;; Keywords: news
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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+;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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-;; any later version.
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+;; (at your option) any later version.
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+;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;; Commentary:
(require 'nnheader)
(require 'nntp)
-(require 'timezone)
-
-(defvar nnspool-inews-program news-inews-program
+(require 'nnoo)
+(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
+
+;; Probably this entire thing should be obsolete.
+;; It's only used to init nnspool-spool-directory, so why not just
+;; set that variable's default directly?
+(eval-and-compile
+ (defvar news-directory (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
+ "/usr/spool/news/"
+ "/var/spool/news/")
+ "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
+ (defvaralias 'news-path 'news-directory))
+
+;; Ditto re obsolescence.
+(defvar news-inews-program
+ (cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/inews") "/usr/local/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/inews") "/usr/local/bin/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews")
+ (t "inews"))
+ "Program to post news.")
+
+(nnoo-declare nnspool)
+
+(defvoo nnspool-inews-program news-inews-program
"Program to post news.
This is most commonly `inews' or `injnews'.")
-(defvar nnspool-inews-switches '("-h")
+(defvoo nnspool-inews-switches '("-h" "-S")
"Switches for nnspool-request-post to pass to `inews' for posting news.
If you are using Cnews, you probably should set this variable to nil.")
-(defvar nnspool-spool-directory (file-name-as-directory news-path)
+(defvoo nnspool-spool-directory
+ (file-name-as-directory (if (boundp 'news-directory)
+ (symbol-value 'news-directory)
+ news-path))
"Local news spool directory.")
-(defvar nnspool-nov-directory (concat nnspool-spool-directory "over.view/")
+(defvoo nnspool-nov-directory (concat nnspool-spool-directory "over.view/")
"Local news nov directory.")
-(defvar nnspool-lib-dir "/usr/lib/news/"
+(defvoo nnspool-lib-dir
+ (if (file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/active")
+ "/usr/lib/news/"
+ "/var/lib/news/")
"Where the local news library files are stored.")
-(defvar nnspool-active-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "active")
+(defvoo nnspool-active-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "active")
"Local news active file.")
-(defvar nnspool-newsgroups-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "newsgroups")
+(defvoo nnspool-newsgroups-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "newsgroups")
"Local news newsgroups file.")
-(defvar nnspool-distributions-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "distributions")
+(defvoo nnspool-distributions-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "distribs.pat")
"Local news distributions file.")
-(defvar nnspool-history-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "history")
+(defvoo nnspool-history-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "history")
"Local news history file.")
-(defvar nnspool-active-times-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "active.times")
+(defvoo nnspool-active-times-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "active.times")
"Local news active date file.")
-(defvar nnspool-large-newsgroup 50
- "The number of the articles which indicates a large newsgroup.
-If the number of the articles is greater than the value, verbose
+(defvoo nnspool-large-newsgroup 50