Sudish> In XEmacs 21.0 "Saanen" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, Mule) of Fri May 22 1998 on ra Sudish> `activate-itimer' calls concat with an integer argument in 21.0-b40. Sudish> The `concat' docs say this is no longer permitted. This caused an Sudish> error in Gnus which uses timers for it's asynch article readahead. Sudish> --- xemacs-21.0-b40/lisp/itimer.el~ Fri May 29 14:09:57 1998 Sudish> +++ xemacs-21.0-b40/lisp/itimer.el Fri May 29 14:09:57 1998 Sudish> ＠＠ -395,7 +395,7 ＠＠ Sudish> (oname "itimer-") Sudish> (num 1)) Sudish> (while (get-itimer name) Sudish> - (setq name (concat oname "<" num ">")) Sudish> + (setq name (concat oname "<" (format "%d" num) ">")) Sudish> (itimer-increment num)) Sudish> (setcar itimer name)) Sudish> ;; signal an error if the timer's name matches an already This has apparently already been fixed (by a slightly more readable patch) in 21.0-b41 San Clemente. Martin