Re: Newsgroup with large article numbers

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Bob Babcock <wssddc@nospam.gis.net> writes:

> 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.  But with Emacs 22, you can read twice as many articles before
Emacs keels over.

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