After watching this conversation go on for a bit, I finally decided to
try again to read an encrypted message with gnus.  First I updated to
the latest CVS (as of about 20010806 0900 EDT).  I opened the message,
ran W s and was prompted for my key file and then the passphrase for
it.  So far so good.  But then came the attached backtrace.  Is this a
result of my running an older XEmacs?  Is there some package I can
update?  Upgrading XEmacs is non-trivial for me at work, at least on
the machine I want to use for mail

Thanks,
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Dave Goldberg
dsg@world.std.com