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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Odd expire output
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.062819.20760@pegasus.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 06:28:19 GMT
References: <1990Jul9.183558.287@caen.engin.umich.edu> <1990Jul10.022506.23924@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>>> expire: wrong number of fields in `...'
>>> expire: bad return from doline(): `'
>>
>>Currently I'm stumped as to where the source of this problem is...
>
>You've got a blank line in your history file.  The problem is being
>compounded slightly by a bug in expire's error handling.
>
>The fix is to go find the messed-up line(s) in your history file,
>and either tidy them up or get rid of them.

Won't this blow away the dbm stuff?  I thought the only safe thing
to do was rebuild the history files from scratch when things got
messed up.  (?)


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com