Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Expire/history file question
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.223019.14416@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb4.144836.2706@progress.com> <JH%&_A#@rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 1991 22:30:19 GMT

In article <JH%&_A#@rpi.edu> tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>My suggested cure is to locknews, edit history, delete that line, then
>run addmissing...

One missing step:  rebuild the history index using mkdbm (must rename
that...) or expire.  This is relatively unimportant if using dbm, but
very important if using dbz -- the offsets into the history file must
be right.
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