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* NoCeM crashing due to parsing errors (error report)
@ 1996-04-17  7:20 Jan Vroonhof
  1996-04-17  7:23 ` NoCeM crashing due to parsing errors (patch) Jan Vroonhof
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jan Vroonhof @ 1996-04-17  7:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: ding


Here sgnus 0.73 bumped out with an (invalid read syntax ".") when
reading the NoCeM data in the article below. The next mail contains a
patch that at lets it recover a little bit better from such erors.

NoCeM is a nice feature BTW!

Jan


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Date: 16 Apr 1996 14:38:36 GMT
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From: jem@xpat.com (JEM)
Subject: EMP/ECP cancelled ($$$DESCRAMBLE CABLE$$$(FAST & CHEAP!): @ (@)) Report 19960416.09 @@NCM
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* Re: NoCeM crashing due to parsing errors (patch)
  1996-04-17  7:20 NoCeM crashing due to parsing errors (error report) Jan Vroonhof
@ 1996-04-17  7:23 ` Jan Vroonhof
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jan Vroonhof @ 1996-04-17  7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: ding


Here's the patch
*** ChangeLog.orig	Sun Apr 14 09:40:14 1996
--- ChangeLog	Wed Apr 17 09:02:13 1996
***************
*** 1,3 ****
--- 1,9 ----
+ Wed Apr 17 08:59:20 1996  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch (Jan Vroonhof)>
+ 
+ 	* gnus-nocem.el (gnus-nocem-enter-article): added some simple
+ 	  error recovery for read calls on article content. 
+ 	  
+ 
  Sun Apr 14 08:54:37 1996  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
  
  	* message.el (message-mode): Mail-hist isn't defined in XEmacs
*** gnus-nocem.el.orig	Sun Apr 14 09:39:59 1996
--- gnus-nocem.el	Wed Apr 17 09:02:35 1996
***************
*** 160,166 ****
        (narrow-to-region b (1+ (match-beginning 0)))
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (while (search-forward "\t" nil t)
! 	(when (boundp (let ((obarray gnus-active-hashtb)) (read buf)))
  	  (beginning-of-line)
  	  (while (= (following-char) ?\t)
  	    (forward-line -1))
--- 160,169 ----
        (narrow-to-region b (1+ (match-beginning 0)))
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (while (search-forward "\t" nil t)
! 	(when (condition-case nil
! 		  (boundp (let ((obarray gnus-active-hashtb)) (read buf)))
! 		(error nil)
! 		)
  	  (beginning-of-line)
  	  (while (= (following-char) ?\t)
  	    (forward-line -1))


-- 
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Mathematik,                                  vroonhof@math.ethz.ch
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