Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > > > The end of my .newsrc-localhost.eld file looks like this: 
> > > > (version . "20.2.1")))
> > > > 
> > > > Because of this I can only use Gnus with one version of Emacs and I
> > > > can't use Xemacs. Why does Gnus do this?
> > > 
> > > Why can't you use Xemacs?   I use all kind of Emacsen with problems.
> 					-- *yikes*, I meant 'without'
> > 
> > Do you have a similar line at the end of your *.eld files? Are your
> > versions on Emacsen the same?
> 
> I frequently use FSF Emacs 20.2 and various flavours of XEmacs 20.x
> and haven't had any problem. I've also tested XEmacs 19.15 and FSF
> Emacs 19.3x without any Gnus-related problems. Right now my
> .newsrc.eld ends with:
> 
> (version . "20.3 \"Vatican City\" XEmacs  Lucid")
> 
> What error messages are you getting, more specifically?

Mine used to have something like this but not any more. I'm using GNU
Emacs 20.2.1 and XEmacs 20.3. 

I used to be able to use both but then I ran Qgnus for a while and
when I stopped running it I couldn't start Gnus on any version of
Emacs (I was using Red Hat 5.0 but went back to 4.2).

I found that I was unable to compile Qgnus on 4.2 with Emacs 19.x
because of an Emacs package that was required. I updated to my current
Emacsen to 20.x so that I could run Qgnus.

This is the error:

Signaling: (error "Error in /home/zcaceog/.newsrc-localhost.eld")
  signal(error ("Error in /home/zcaceog/.newsrc-localhost.eld"))
  cerror("Error in %s" "/home/zcaceog/.newsrc-localhost.eld")
  apply(cerror ("Error in %s" "/home/zcaceog/.newsrc-localhost.eld"))
  error("Error in %s" "/home/zcaceog/.newsrc-localhost.eld")
  byte-code("À ˆÁÂÃ\"!¬…ÅÆ\"ˆÀ‡" [ding gnus-yes-or-no-p format "Error in %s; continue? " ding-file error "Error in %s"] 4)
  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