Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews expire problems
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.215008.7393@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb20.161636.9861@cimage.com> <1991Feb20.195229.10997@cimage.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 21:50:08 GMT

In article <1991Feb20.195229.10997@cimage.com> brian@dgsi.UUCP (Brian Kelley) writes:
>Though when I ran mkhistory, I got the following message:
>
>mkhistory: <swill@trash> found in history.n -- aborting

Sounds like you need a more modern C News. :-)  Mkhistory now just warns
you about this; it sets up legal history lines that call for immediate
expiry.  (The problem is article-like files that don't seem to be legal
articles.)

>Thanks to the two very quick respondents who clued me in to the mkhistory
>solution.

Addmissing is actually a cleaner solution, although by the sounds of it
your C News may be too old to have it.  Mkhistory does have the wart of
losing the history lines for expired articles.
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