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From: smitty@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM (Hibbard T. Smith JR)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Losing Map entries
Summary: Maps disappear
Keywords: Maps
Message-ID: <807@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 01:41:06 GMT
Organization: ESSNJAY Systems Inc., Bethany, CT, USA
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I'm running b news version 19.  I'm also using the map building and saving
software distributed with smail-3.1.19.  Here's the problem:

The news software builds a batch file of incoming uucp map article file names.
When getmap runs (3 times a week), quite often I get errors from getmap 
claiming that it can't open some article files.  When I look, sure enough,
no such article exists. Usually these articles are sandwiched by sequential
neighbors who get processed just fine.  It would seem that these articles 
vanish in the 1 or 2 days from their arrival to the getmap run's trying to
get them.  No mention in the news errlog or log files of anything in connection
with the missing articles.  Since the article numbers appear in the batch file
which is built by inews when he's unpacking and filing the articles, I have
to assume they were there in the first place.  Boy, am I confused ;-) .

If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd sure appreciate it.  Thanks in
advance for any help.

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		Smitty
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Hibbard T. Smith JR                 smitty@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM	
ESSNJAY Systems Inc.                uunet!hsi!essnj1!smitty