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Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> When I start up Gnus, I get the error message
> 	Error in /home/sb/.newsrc.eld; continue? (yes or no)
>
> When I type "yes" and press RET, everything seems to work normally.
> But the message is annoying.  Does anyone have a good trick to trace
> it down and fix it manually?
>
> Perhaps we need a .newsrc.eld well formedness/syntax checker?

Well, that's what you're seeing, basically.  :-)

These errors are usually the result of moving between different
X/Emacs versions that use different read syntaxaei.  The cruft is
usually at the end of the .newsrc.eld file.

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