Re: slrn crashes on invalid new group names
Troy Piggins <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.slrn.user |
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| 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. -- Troy Piggins | http://piggo.com/~troy/slrn ___ | __ __ |___ | |/ |/ | ___| | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone