Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: error from Cnews Expire
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.224602.22729@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 22:46:02 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.015343.18772@unixland.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr27.015343.18772@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>I'm getting the following error each day from Cnews "doexpire" on
>an Esix (SYSVR3) system.  I've "find"ed through the entire news spool,
>and haven't been able to find an article with that string in it...

This is a bad line in the history file, not in an article.  Expire never
looks at articles.  The message is admittedly a bit unclear about this,
but that was fixed some time ago.
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And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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