Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Cnews artnum in active file Message-ID: <1990Aug17.034849.17801@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Aug16.185023.26200@squirrel.mh.nl> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 03:48:49 GMT In article <1990Aug16.185023.26200@squirrel.mh.nl> Johan Vromans writes: >I have noted that in the active file, the lower article number always >remains 1. Is this normal? This is normal unless you have a crontab entry that occasionally runs upact (more portable) or updatemin (rather faster). This is currently an ill-documented option; it will probably become standard when I get around to changing it. We currently run updatemin weekly, for the benefit of some stupid reader software. (The lower number is basically an inadequate kludge that smarter software should never look at, but there is a lot of dumb software in the world, sigh...) -- It is not possible to both understand | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry