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From: news@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Arrrgh! I lost my active file!!
Message-ID: <1103@t4test.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 12:58:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: t4test.1103
Posted: Fri Sep  7 12:58:58 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 05:40:37 EDT
Distribution: net.all
Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
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This isn't the first time I've lost it.  The other times I've gone
through and rebuilt it manually.  I'm getting tired of doing that.
Does anybody have a program which will automatically rebuild 'active'
for me?  I need either something which will either go through 'history'
or '/usr/spool/news/...' and rebuild 'active' from scratch, or go
through 'history' or 'log' and bring an outdated backup copy of
'active' up to date.

While we are talking about maintaining files, I wrote a program which
goes through 'history' and cleans it up.  For example, if an article
gets deleted from the news spool directory and the line isn't removed
from 'history', our 'expire' won't do it either.  That's one of the
things 'cleanhist' does.  If anybody wants a copy, drop me a line.
(I'd be happy to trade it for an 'active' file restorer!!!)

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Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara
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