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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: How rebuild the newsitems.v50 file
Message-ID: <1990.25b6003b@mccall.uucp>
Date: 18 Jan 90 17:43:22 GMT
References: <9001151008.AA03889@uunet.uu.net>
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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In article <9001151008.AA03889@uunet.uu.net>, munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) writes:
> 	NEWS> ADD FILE/RETRY NEWS_DEVICE:[000000...]*.ITM
>         NEWS> SKIM

If your news disk is not big enough to temporarily hold 2 copies of all the
news, you will want to add /DELETE to the ADD FILE command. The add file
will create a brand new file every time it adds an item. If you don't put
the /delete on there, you will have 2 copies of each news item. SKIM will
get rid of the extras, but not until you've duplicated all your item files.

I had to do this once, because almost all incoming articles were being
rejected (including the one containing the program that can do this whole
job in a few hours without resetting dates, etc...). This only took about
40 hours to run (yes HOURS), but only because I deleted all the items in a
lot of high volume groups because I started.
-- 
Terry Poot (800)255-2762, in Kansas (913)776-4041
The McCall Pattern Company, 615 McCall Rd., Manhattan, KS 66502, USA
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