Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: problems with Cnews expire
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.142937.23186@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep27.201702.1624@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 14:29:37 GMT

In article <1990Sep27.201702.1624@news.arc.nasa.gov> schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) writes:
>/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/expire: wrong number of fields in `...'
>
>There is no blank line in the active file (egrep '^$' active failed).

The error reporting isn't quite all it should be, in spots here and
there.  This is a problem with the history file, not the active file.
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