Re: Bad .newsrc.eld created by Gnus

[Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk>]

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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> 
> >> Who put in the #'s?  That's not valid Emacs or XEmacs.
> 
> > Not me. I didn't think they should be there. Perhaps the file was
> > corrupted when X crashed a while back.
> 
> The first snippet didn't look corrupted.  The parens were balanced.

I tried taking out the "#" marks while leaving the parens intact but I
got this error:

Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp ("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:comp.lang.java.help" 0 23 nil 23 42 (mouse-face highlight face gnus-group-news-3-face)))
  intern(("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:comp.lang.java.help" 0 23 nil 23 42 (mouse-face highlight face gnus-group-news-3-face)) [comp\.os\.linux\.setup 0 0 comp\.os\.linux\.development\.apps 0 comp\.os\.linux\.hardware 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nnml:redhat\.digests\.v97\.p1 nnml:redhat\.digests\.v97\.p2 nnml:redhat\.digests\.v96\.p3 0 gnu\.announce 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 comp\.emacs\.xemacs 0 nnml:hurricane 0 nnml:sag nnml:inbox 0 0 0 null 0 0 0 0 0 ...])
  gnus-make-hashtable-from-newsrc-alist()
  gnus-read-newsrc-el-file("/home/zcaceog/.newsrc-localhost.el")
  gnus-read-newsrc-file(nil)
  gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
  byte-code("\b¬ˆ	¬… ˆª»ÃÄ!ˆÅ\x0e\x06!\x16\a\x0e\b¬„\x0e	«ƒÊ ˆ\x0e\v«ˆÌ ˆÍÎÏ\"ˆÐÑ\x0e\x12\b#ˆÓ\x0e\x12!ˆÔ ˆÕÖ!ˆ× ˆÃØ!ˆÑ‡" [dont-connect did-connect gnus-group-quit run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-startup-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-dribble-read-file gnus-use-grouplens bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode gnus-setup-news nil level gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook] 4)
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)
  command-execute(gnus t)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

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Eze Ogwuma