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"G. Evermann" <ge204@eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> When downloding articles for the agent I get lots of the following
> messages on the console:
> 
> Comparison between integer and character is constant nil (?2 and 0)
>    [nntp-retrieve-articles, gnus-retrieve-articles, gnus-agent-fetch-articles, gnus-agent-fetch-group-1, <compiled-function of unknown origin>, call-interactively]

Let's see...  The only places ?2 appears is in

(eq (following-char) ?2)

and

(memq (char-after (point)) '(?2 ?3 ?4 ?5))

in nntp.el.

Is this verboten?

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen