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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What's happening to my history file?
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.162527.23733@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 16:25:27 GMT
References: <1311@kosman.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1311@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>It actually seems to run okay... well, mostly .... but I'm suddenly getting
>a bunch of mail from the expire program.  Anybody know what it's trying to
>tell me?  It just looks so garbled that I dunno what it is...

The history file has gotten scrambled, but good.  The fix is to rebuild it,
using mkhistory.  If it happens repeatedly, you've got some detective work
ahead of you.
-- 
"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
believe ill of the modern world."-R.Peto|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry