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From: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Max article number reached?
Keywords: cnews
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.182609.23026@uai.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 18:26:09 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.122242.1179@ioe.lon.ac.uk> <1991Apr25.215042.25734@world.std.com>
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In-Reply-To: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)

In article <1991Apr25.215042.25734@world.std.com>, geoff@world (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>To fix this problem forever (or until we need article numbers larger
>than 32 bits anyway), lock the news system with locknews (see
>newsmaint(8)), add 5 zeroes onto the left of the second field of each
>line of the active file, and unlock the news system.

The version of NEWSBIN/expire/upact I have (circa December, 1990)
explicitly rewrites the third field of NEWSCTL/active with 5
digits...if this hasn't been changed yet...$$
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