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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Expire: wrong number of fields in history
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.225127.4757@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 22:51:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.095440.6559@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar19.095440.6559@ecst.csuchico.edu> warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes:
>  Anybody know a clever way to track these articles down and kill `em off so
>they're not causing problems?  I get this mail every day from doexpire:
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=  (start)
>expire problems:
>expire: wrong number of fields in history `<1991Feb20.153104.4390@aucs.AcadiaU.ca>	...'

This is not a problem with the articles; it is a problem with your history
file.  How it happened I couldn't be sure.  The simple fix is to rebuild
the history file with mkhistory.  (There is a more elegant fix but it
requires more detailed knowledge of the machinery.)
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"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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