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From: JHWELCH@AMHERST.BITNET (Jonathan_Welch)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: NEWS.ITEM file going bad
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Date: 12 Oct 89 17:52:00 GMT
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Our news.item file just went bad; when news is started one gets
a RMS error message about the REF field being invalid and some
large number.
     
Unfortunately it turns out that our news stuff has been on a disk
that wasn't being backed up every day so the best we can do
is get back a .item file from a few days ago.
     
It would be nice if there were some way to tell news to build
an item file by scanning the files in the message directories.
Has anyone done (or interested in doing) something like this?
     
Jonathan Welch
VAX Systems Programmer
     
Bitnet: JHWELCH@amherst