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In GNU Emacs 19.27.1 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3, X toolkit) of Tue Sep 20 1994 on sun25

I installed 19.27 last night and arrived in work this morning to
numerous complaints from users that they couldn't run BBDB or
completion on their existing .bbdb and .completions files
respectively.

Here's a line from a .bbdb file that illustrates the problem:

["Luke" nil nil nil nil nil (#("l@c@ch.co.uk" 0 28 (face default))) nil nil]

Here's a healthy line:

["Tim" "Gibbs" nil nil nil nil ("Tim.Gibbs" "Tim.Gibbs@src.bae.co.uk" "gibbs@src.bae.co.uk") nil nil]

The problem with .completions files is similar, in that it has a
spurious # at the beginning, and some face related nonsence after the
(string in double quotes).

It seems that Emacs 19.25.95 could read such nonsence without error,
but that 19.27 can't.  I say this because one of the users who
complains hasn't changed his .bbdb file for some days, and I only
installed 19.27 yesterday - that's when the problem started.  This
could be wrong, but I don't think so.

Chris.
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