Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Max article number reached?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.191848.8370@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 19:18:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.122242.1179@ioe.lon.ac.uk> <1991Apr25.215042.25734@world.std.com> <1991Apr26.182609.23026@uai.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr26.182609.23026@uai.com> mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
>>... 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...

2 != 3.  If you read the upact coverage in expire(8) carefully, you will
find a discussion of why the second and third fields get treated differently.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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