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From: dan@kfw.COM (Dan Mick)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Active file munged
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.012829.7501@kfw.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 90 01:28:29 GMT
Reply-To: dan@kfw.com (Dan Mick)
Organization: KFW Corporation, Newbury Park, CA
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We're running C News, and last night my active file got hosed due to an 
unrecoverable disk error (sigh).  

What should I have done to repair it? 

What I did was 

cp active.old active
recovact active
upact 

and then rn dumped core when I tried to get in...until I updated some 
ridiculous things in .newsrc.  God knows how they got there.

Anyway, was that the safest way to recover?