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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> lconrad@world.std.com writes:
> 
> > Signaling: (wrong-type-argument characterp 116)
> >   mm-char-int(116)
> >   gnus-continuum-version("September Gnus v0.1")

> Karl: gnus-convert-old-newsrc evals (gnus-continuum-version "September
> Gnus v0.1") -- see gnus-startup.el.  I had thought it was a load-path
> mixup, too.  I don't remember the resolution back then, though.  Maybe
> searching Deja.com for this error message turns up that discussion?

Kai, I think this was on of of the German Newsgroups. ISTR us spending
about a week coming up with all kind of complicated suggestions and in
the end it was something *really* trivial -- can't remeber what is
was though :-)

maybe doing a 
  make distclean && ./configure && make EMAS=xemacs 

might help?

  Gunnar