Re: nntp:news.freshmeat.net

[Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

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>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Rathkopf <ted@rathkopf.org> writes:

Ted> Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
>> Chris Halverson <cdh@CompleteIS.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Do the following:
>> > 
>> > G m fm.announce RET nntp RET news.freshmeat.net
>> > 
>> > You must "make" the group (G m).
>> 
>> You should be able to browse it.  Pgnus 0.84 does it fine, so I'd say
>> it's a bug.

Ted> That may be.  I'm using 0.90.

This is a bug since 0.93. Here is a patch to fix this bug
hopefully. (cc'ed to bugs@gnus.org)

1999-09-02  Shenghuo ZHU  <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>

	* gnus-srvr.el (gnus-browse-foreign-server): Read the first line
	of active file.

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Shenghuo ZHU


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--- ../../pgnus-sent/lisp/gnus-srvr.el	Thu Sep  2 15:23:34 1999
+++ gnus-srvr.el	Thu Sep  2 15:34:53 1999
@@ -592,11 +592,12 @@
 	  (goto-char (point-min))
 	  (unless (string= gnus-ignored-newsgroups "")
 	    (delete-matching-lines gnus-ignored-newsgroups))
-         (while (and (not (eobp)) (forward-line))
+	  (while (not (eobp)) 
 	    (ignore-errors
              (push (cons (read cur)
 			  (max 0 (- (1+ (read cur)) (read cur))))
-		    groups)))))
+		    groups))
+	    (forward-line))))
       (setq groups (sort groups
 			 (lambda (l1 l2)
 			   (string< (car l1) (car l2)))))