From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/296 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Josh Huber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Error 'invalid read syntax =?iso-8859-1?q?=A8#=A8'?= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:25:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87elhfaco6.fsf@alum.wpi.edu> References: <87n0w3hppk.fsf@landhaus.consult-meyers.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667327 6346 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:28:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:22 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lowell.missioncriticallinux.com Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1018971782 24298 208.51.139.16 (16 Apr 2002 15:43:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Apr 2002 15:43:02 GMT X-PGP-KeyID: 6B21489A X-Face: C%mBb*K1^od)w'=CH$WEZu/M^aR<,.n|1uAe,;MyNLKoel>F;-j[`L!>m:Y%/R}m&4&xuIM R%7Ez?vbd*Ns>VE;{\(yl|mGByV{D:Dm>'52].@P&t_s^,.d Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > "A. L. Meyers" writes: > >> But I'm getting the captioned wierd error message above every time I >> open a news message. How can I get rid of it? > > As usual, set debug-on-error to t, produce the error again, > investigate the backtrace. Maybe you can see which file it was > reading at that time. > > Are you sure that XEmacs isn't finding *.elc files produced from > Emacs or vice versa? That might lead to such problems. Close, but I bet it's the .bbdb file -- a friend of mine migrated from Emacs to XEmacs, and apartently the dumped syntax was specific to the Emacs flavor. He didn't have much in his BBDB, so he just blew it away, but I bet you could change it pretty easily... I think in Emacs vectors are written to the .bbdb with a leading #, and in XEmacs they are not: ["Kai" "Großjohann" nil nil nil nil ("Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE" "grossjoh@lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de" "grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de") ((creation-date . "2001-10-26") (timestamp . "2002-01-28")) nil] ttyl, -- Josh Huber