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Problem with Downgrading from Oort Gnus 0.07 to Gnus 5.9

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Klaus Berndl

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Oct 7, 2002, 7:34:52 AM10/7/02
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After downgrading from Oort Gnus 0.07 to Gnus 5.9 (to try something out) i
can't open certain newsgroups with Gnus 5.9 cause of a missing function
gnus-correct-substring...

OK, after looking a little bit around i find a call to this function in my
.newsrc.eld:

,----
| (setq gnus-format-specs .... (gnus-correct-substring gnus-tmp-name 0 20))
`----

Seems that Oort Gnus 0.07 has inserted this call...

Now my question: What can i do so Gnus 5.9 can work correct with my
.newsrc.eld file??

Many Thanks in advance,
Klaus

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Jesper Harder

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Oct 8, 2002, 10:44:14 AM10/8/02
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Klaus Berndl <Klaus....@sdm.de> writes:

> After downgrading from Oort Gnus 0.07 to Gnus 5.9 (to try something
> out) i can't open certain newsgroups with Gnus 5.9 cause of a missing
> function gnus-correct-substring...
>

> Now my question: What can i do so Gnus 5.9 can work correct with my
> .newsrc.eld file??

[Untested]

(defalias 'gnus-correct-substring 'substring)

After that `M-x gnus-compile' in Gnus 5.9 should probably remove the
reference to gnus-correct-substring.

Klaus Berndl

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Oct 8, 2002, 11:14:45 AM10/8/02
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Thanks but i have tried the following with success:
1. Manually deleted the line "(setq gnus-format-specs '(..." from .newrc.eld
and saved this file.
2. Running Gnus 5.9 and then `M-x gnus-compile'.

This has added the line "(setq gnus-format-specs '(..." in the Gnus 5.9 format
to .newrc.eld and all is working fine again.

Nevertheless thanks for your help!

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