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From: dbaker@ihu1j.UUCP (Darryl Baker)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: 'checknews y' returns incorrectly
Message-ID: <106@ihu1j.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 20:02:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 12 20:02:39 1984
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I had a similar problem with a user. It turn out to be that his .newsrc
file had lines ending in just '!'. Once they were changed to end with
'! 1' checknews worked fine.
				Darryl Baker
				ihnp4!nwuxd!dbaker