Re: slrn crashes on invalid new group names

Troy Piggins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Every time I start slrn with these new group names at the end of
> .newsrc :
>
> -----8<-----
>+00000000.0000:alt.binaries.dvd.french.nzb!
>+00000000.0000:alt.pl.matematyka!
> a+00000000.0000:alt.binaries.dvd.midnightmovies!
> -----8<-----
>
> slrn crashes at the startup.  I delete these last 3 entries and
> it works fine.

By "crashes", what do you mean?  When I append those lines to my
newsrc file, I see:

  Connected to host.  Posting ok.
  Checking for new groups ...
  Checking news ...
  Group +00000000.0000 is bogus - dropping it.
  Run-Time Error
  Group a+00000000.0000 is bogus - dropping it.

  slrn fatal error:
  An error was encountered during initialization.

Do you see something different?

I do believe that slrn should not regard this as a fatal error, and
should continue starting up.  I will correct that this weekend.

Thanks,
--John

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