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From: wisner@ims.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Max article number reached?
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.214139.3549@ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 91 21:41:39 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.122242.1179@ioe.lon.ac.uk> <1991Apr26.151833.26527@zoo.toronto.edu>
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>                                   The fix is to add some more zeros on
>the front manually.

Or do what I did a few days ago:

% cat > widen < FnorD
#!/usr/bin/perl

while (<>) {
	($ng, $low, $high, $flag) = split;
	printf("%s %010d %010d %s\n", $ng, $low, $high, $flag);
}
FnorD
% chmod +x widen
% locknews
% mv active foo
% ./widen foo > active
% exit

Bill Wisner <wisner@ims.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775
bnug, dude
yeah
.