Re: BUG: Uses modulus at the place of the number

[Merciadri Luca]

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Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:
>
>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>>
>>> How is Gnus supposed to interpret a negative amount of threads?
>> As I said, I think that it would be coherent to display, in such a
>> case, a message like "Unable to fetch the group", which is displayed
>> when an 0 amount of thread is specified.
>
> Funny enough I decided to try the - number. It seemed to fetch the
> earliest N posts.
>
>>
>>> What do you mean "it bugs"? What happens exactly?
>> Gnus loads the number of threads which was specified, minus the
>> sign. If I type "-1", it downloads 1 message.
>
> And the date on that message?
I had not specified it (as it seemed a natural things): it downloads N
*threads*, the last ones which were posted on the server.
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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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