oort chokes with no newsrc

oort chokes with no newsrc

[Richard Hoskins]

GNU Emacs 20.7.2
Oort Gnus v0.03 CVS as of 2001-04-21

Gnus generates this backtrace on a fresh installation, ie no .newsrc or
.newsrc.eld:

Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  string-match("^\\([^ ]+\\)? ?Gnus v?\\([0-9.]+\\)$" nil)
  gnus-continuum-version(nil)
  gnus-read-newsrc-el-file("/home/rmh/.newsrc.el")
  gnus-read-newsrc-file(nil)
  gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
  byte-code("\b„\x0e\0	„\x0e\0Æ ˆ‚O\0ÇÈ!ˆÉ\n!\x13\f„\x1e\0\rƒ!\0Ê ˆ\x0e\x19ƒ.\0Ë ˆÌÍÎ\"ˆÏÐ\x0e\x1a\b#ˆÇÑ!ˆÒ ˆÓ\x0e\x1a!ˆÔ ˆÕÖ!ˆ× ˆÇØ!ˆÐ‡" [dont-connect did-connect gnus-startup-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-read-file bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook gnus-use-grouplens level] 4)
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

After the files are created with 5.8.8, Oort behaves.

Re: oort chokes with no newsrc

[ShengHuo ZHU]

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Richard Hoskins <rmh@apk.net> writes:

> GNU Emacs 20.7.2
> Oort Gnus v0.03 CVS as of 2001-04-21
> 
> Gnus generates this backtrace on a fresh installation, ie no .newsrc or
> .newsrc.eld:
> 
> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>   string-match("^\\([^ ]+\\)? ?Gnus v?\\([0-9.]+\\)$" nil)
>   gnus-continuum-version(nil)
>   gnus-read-newsrc-el-file("/home/rmh/.newsrc.el")
>   gnus-read-newsrc-file(nil)
>   gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
>   byte-code("\b„\x0e  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
>   gnus(nil)
>   call-interactively(gnus)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

Fixed.

ShengHuo