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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: B/C News woes
Message-ID: <1989Nov24.164605.29953@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Nov17.162448.22026@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <1989Nov21.140935.1224@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <256A4010.5066@rpi.edu> <1989Nov22.075837.12240@utstat.uucp> <89Nov22.130142est.2899@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <1989Nov23.192922.4202@utzoo.uucp> <1989Nov24.062333.4784@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 89 16:46:05 GMT

In article <1989Nov24.062333.4784@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>	cd $NEWSARTS
>	find .
>(or find $NEWSARTS) that get used in a few places (most noticably
>mkhistory)... I keep nn's database in /usr/spool/news/nn... that
>breaks mkhistory, since a lot of the nn files start with numbers.
>My solution was to just explicitly list all top-level categories...

If you've got a modern C News, nothing does "find ." in NEWSARTS; what
gets done (taking mkhistory as an example) is:

	find `ls | egrep -v '\.'`

This omits all names with dots in them, which is precisely the set
of names which *cannot* be real newsgroup directories.  Try naming your
nn database directory nn.dbase or something like that instead, and the
problem goes away *without* kludges like explicitly listing top-level
groups.  That's why in.coming and out.going have dots in their names.
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