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Re: Newsgroup with large article numbers
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Newsgroup with large article numbers |
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Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:49:00 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Gnus doesn't seem to like article numbers greater than hex 7ffffff
>> (134,217,727 decimal). This is 4 bits sooner than I would expect it to
>> break, but I see references to emacs using 28-bit integers so it must be
>> using the last few bits for something else. I wouldn't normally use gnus
>> for newsgroups with this many messages, but when I did try it, gnus thought
>> there were no new messages. Is there a workaround?
> Nope.
Of course there is: use a 64bit system.
Stefan