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Subject: Re: gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview error (was: gnus tries to run w3m)
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Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

  > Kevin, could you please look into this?
  > 
  > On Mon, Jan 23 2006, Dan Nicolaescu wrote on bugs@gnus.org:
  > 
  > [ Switching back from January 2006 version to November 2005 version ]
  > > Trying to use gnus in the November version of emacs an error about
  > > gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview is produced... 
  > >
  > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
  > 

More details about the above, the error message seems to be this:
gnus-agent-read-agentview no longer supports version %d.  Stop gnus,\
 manually evaluate gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview, then
 restart gnus.

But how to "manually evaluate gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview"  is
not obvious, that function takes one (undocumented) parameter and the
user cannot guess what that parameter might be. 
Another thing is that gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview is
not autoloaded, or loaded by default so for some users would be
difficult to even find the function...