From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Newsgroup with large article numbers
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:03:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3slod1mi1.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns9776E4629E381wssddcgisnet@207.69.189.191>
Bob Babcock <wssddc@nospam.gis.net> writes:
> Gnus doesn't seem to like article numbers greater than hex 7ffffff
> (134,217,727 decimal). This is 4 bits sooner than I would expect it to
> break, but I see references to emacs using 28-bit integers so it must be
> using the last few bits for something else. I wouldn't normally use gnus
> for newsgroups with this many messages, but when I did try it, gnus thought
> there were no new messages. Is there a workaround?
Nope. But with Emacs 22, you can read twice as many articles before
Emacs keels over.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-16 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 3:27 Bob Babcock
2006-04-16 17:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2006-04-17 4:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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