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Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3



"Nate" == Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> writes:

> Yesterday I updated to 2.2r2 and decided to give Xemacs and Gnus a
> try (I had been playing with Emacs 20.7 and Gnus 5.7 and it worked
> fine).  The problem seems to be that Gnus is ignoring the
> .newsrc-dribble file and is reading the entire active file from my
> ISP's news server.

> First I encountered this after loading Gnus 5.8.3 on Xemacs.  I
> gathered there may be some incompatibility between the file written
> by 5.7 and 5.8.3, so I removed ~/.newsrc-dribble and restarted Gnus.
> It read the active file from the ISP and then gave me the short
> default group list.  So far so good, so I selected my favorite
> groups and did some reading.  I closed down Gnus and verified it had
> written the groups and the read article numbers to
> ~/.newsrc-dribble.

Hm, this doesn't seem right.  Should be #.newsrc-dribble#, and that
should be deleted after quitting Gnus.  Gnus should save the groups
and read articles to the .newsrc and .newrc.eld files after quitting.
Also, my (2.2r2) Gnus version in Xemacs is 5.8.7.

> Now this morning I fired up Gnus and received the normal prompt:

> Gnus auto-save file exists.  Do you want to read it? (y or n)

> So, I answered with a y and once again it began reading the entire
> active file from the ISP, apparently ignoring ~/.newsrc-dribble.  I

This is what I would try:

If you have the ~/.newsrc and ~/.newsrc.eld files, you should delete
the ~/#.newsrc.dribble# file (when Gnus is not running), then start
Gnus again.  See if that works.

If that doesn't work, you might try posting to comp.emacs.xemacs for
more info/help.

=wl

-- 
Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer
"They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of 
SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"



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