From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13840 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Bad .newsrc.eld created by Gnus Date: 09 Feb 1998 01:49:34 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153133 11441 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:32:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19921 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 17:51:52 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22169 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 19:48:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAN03526; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 20:25:09 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 08 Feb 1998 19:48:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA14556 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 19:48:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 10053 invoked by uid 504); 9 Feb 1998 01:47:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10050 invoked from network); 9 Feb 1998 01:47:56 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.32.10) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 9 Feb 1998 01:47:56 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (zcaceog@bh-cw07-021.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.53.21]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA01347; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 01:47:54 GMT Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA18822; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 01:49:35 GMT Original-To: SL Baur In-Reply-To: SL Baur's message of 08 Feb 1998 17:28:00 -0800 Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13840 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13840 SL Baur writes: > Eze Ogwuma writes: > > > SL Baur 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("¬ˆ ¬… ˆª»ÃÄ!ˆÅ!¬„ «ƒÊ ˆ «ˆÌ ˆÍÎÏ\"ˆÐÑ#ˆÓ!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) -- Eze Ogwuma