From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13832 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Bad .newsrc.eld created by Gnus Date: 08 Feb 1998 21:31:00 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153127 11402 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:32:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:32:07 +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 NAA07193 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 13:35:09 -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 PAA13160 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:31:58 -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 QAN02861; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 16:08:20 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 08 Feb 1998 15:29:41 -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 PAA11380 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:29:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9198 invoked by uid 504); 8 Feb 1998 21:29:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9192 invoked from network); 8 Feb 1998 21:29:26 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.32.10) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 1998 21:29:26 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (zcaceog@bh-cw02-141.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.51.141]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA20704; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:29:23 GMT Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA16638; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:31:01 GMT Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "08 Feb 1998 21:00:47 +0100" Original-Lines: 53 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.23/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13832 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13832 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Eze Ogwuma writes: > > > > > > What does the end of the .eld file look like? > > > > > > > > (version . "20.2.1"))) > > > > > > What are the last two or three lines? > > > > This follows the topic a-list: > > Yes -- but that format spec looks ok to me. > > Try putting the .newsrc.eld file into a buffer and type > `M-x eval-current-buffer RET' to see where the problem is. I get the error: Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax "#") eval-buffer(# nil) #() call-interactively(eval-current-buffer) command-execute(eval-current-buffer t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) This is part of my file. It is the only part that contains "#". (#("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:comp.lang.java.help" 0 23 nil 23 42 (mouse-face highlight face gnus-group-news-3-face)) 3 ((1 . 13981) 13983 (13985 . 13991) (13997 . 14004) 14006 (14009 . 14010) 14012 (14015 . 14018) (14021 . 14025) (14027 . 14029) (14031 . 14032) (14035 . 14038) (14041 . 14044) (14050 . 14051) 14055 14060 14062 14064 14068 14080 14083 (14085 . 14087) (14090 . 14092) (14097 . 14099) (14101 . 14102) 14106 14109 (14111 . 14112) 14114 14119 (14121 . 14122) 14124 14129 14131 (14133 . 14137) (14139 . 14149) (14156 . 14157) 14159 14161 (14163 . 14166) (14169 . 14170) (14174 . 14179) 14183 14186 14189 14192 14194 (14197 . 14198) (14205 . 14207) 14209 14215 14217 (14219 . 14220) (14228 . 14229) 14234 (14236 . 14237) (14241 . 14243) (14246 . 14249) (14253 . 14254) (14257 . 14258) 14316 14417 14444 14479 (14525 . 14526) 14546) ((cache 12238 13613 13728 13783 13836 13859 13887 14051 14526) (tick 13613 13728 13783)) (nntp "news.dircon.co.uk")) (#("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:comp.lang.java.programmer" 0 23 nil 23 48 (mouse-face highlight face gnus-group-news-3-face)) 3 ((1 . 105594) 105612 105781 106073 106076 106087 106122 106182 106232 106911) nil -- Eze Ogwuma