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diff --git a/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el b/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el
index 6a50fb787a7..eaf5159be8f 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
;;; nnspool.el --- spool access for GNU Emacs
;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
-;; 2000, 2002
+;; 2000, 2002, 2003
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Masanobu UMEDA <umerin@flab.flab.fujitsu.junet>
-;; Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
+;; Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
;; Keywords: news
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
@@ -50,7 +50,10 @@ If you are using Cnews, you probably should set this variable to nil.")
(defvoo nnspool-nov-directory (concat nnspool-spool-directory "over.view/")
"Local news nov directory.")
-(defvoo 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.")
(defvoo nnspool-active-file (concat nnspool-lib-dir "active")
@@ -69,8 +72,8 @@ If you are using Cnews, you probably should set this variable to nil.")
"Local news active date file.")
(defvoo 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
+ "The number of articles which indicates a large newsgroup.
+If the number of articles is greater than the value, verbose
messages will be shown to indicate the current status.")
(defvoo nnspool-nov-is-evil nil
@@ -361,7 +364,7 @@ there.")
(let ((nov (nnheader-group-pathname
nnspool-current-group nnspool-nov-directory ".overview"))
(arts articles)
- (nnheader-file-coding-system nnspool-file-coding-system)
+ (nnheader-file-coding-system nnspool-file-coding-system)
last)
(if (not (file-exists-p nov))
()