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From: schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: problems with Cnews expire
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Date: 27 Sep 90 20:17:02 GMT
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I get this error message from expire:

/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/expire: wrong number of fields in `...'
/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/expire: bad return from doline(): `'

There is no blank line in the active file (egrep '^$' active failed).

What's going on?