Re: slrn crashes on invalid new group names

Troy Piggins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* John E. Davis is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> 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?

I mean it stops running due to a fatal error.

> 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?

No.  That's what I see.

> 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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