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Shao Zhang <shaoz@activesky.com> writes:

> I upgraded to emacs 21.3 today, recompiled bbdb and gnus along with it.
> But all of sudden, I found my .bbdb became a binary file.

Whee.  Maybe you could C-x C-f the file and see what's wrong in
there.  Maybe you can guess the encoding of the file?

BBDB 2.35 has a variable bbdb-file-coding-system which needs to have
the right value, matching the encoding of the file.
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