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From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
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Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
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Date: 15 Aug 90 20:53:53 GMT
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In article <1990Aug15.164651.26664@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>history file at all!), and to recover after the history file gets horribly
>mangled somehow.  In the former case you want to save old history; in the
>latter you don't.  It is probably necessary to distinguish the two cases.

If the history file is so mangled that it is useless to recover expired
IDs from then there is this marvelous and powerful tool called "rm".
Using it will very effectively eliminate the corruption without
complicating the code used to rebuild history.