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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: faster B-news expire?
Message-ID: <17468@celit.fps.com>
Date: 6 May 91 02:46:50 GMT
References: <24869@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <1991May2.040520.14012@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: FPS Computing Inc., San Diego CA
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In article <1991May2.040520.14012@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>The C News expire should work with B News -- it was designed to, although
>this hasn't been checked lately -- with the proviso that if you want it to
>respect explicit expiry dates, you need a small B News patch (posted long
>ago) to generate exactly the format of history file that C News uses.

I thought that there were file locking issues due to the different
locking mechanisms which Bnews and Cnews use.

Am I confused or just out of date?

Would my active file and history files be safe if I just tried to run
Cnews expire with Bnews 2.11.19 out of the box?

--Bill Davidson