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Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> > Does it apply to earlier versions of Gnus as well?  Making the fix in
> > OGnus would only help people that went back to OGnus, but it wouldn't
> > help people running Gnus 5.7 or 5.9 that comes with Emacs.  So if you
> > install a semi-gnus you can never go back, unless you go back to OGnus
> > betas?  (Well, or delete .newsrc.eld...)  To solve that, I think
> > Semi-gnusae need to be changed to insert a file-version string that
> > older Gnusae understands.
> 
> Never mind.  As far as I know, earlier versions of Gnus does not check
> a file-version string.

Oops, sorry.

> > The same would apply to the use of (I think) `gnus-substring' in
> > .newsrc.eld, which Larsi-Gnus never has implemented.  So you can't
> > revert to Larsi-Gnus without defining it... Maybe this is fixed now,
> > though.
> 
> Do you mean `gnus-truncate-string'?

Yes, that's the one.

> I believe that such a thing won't be appeared in .newsrc.eld these
> days.

Ok, great.