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From: paul@greipa.UUCP (Paul A. Vixie)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: another (hopefully) harmless query
Message-ID: <197@greipa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-May-85 02:58:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 02:58:32 1985
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Hello again, boys and girls.  My sometimes responsibile partner in crime
here at greipa managed today to wipe out our active file ("really, paul,
it shouldn't have acted that way").  After the initial cries of rage and
anguish (he lives), I searched for a program among the news source that
would make an active file from the news articles themselves.  Not finding
one, I decided that "there must be one floating around somewhere," but
that we couldn't afford to wait.  The result of this need has been posted
to net.sources as "mkact.c" in case the world needs another version of it...

However, mkact.c is not really the subject of this article (sorry for the
ramble).  In the process of thinking about and testing this utility, I
noticed what could be a problem in the news software... Hope this isn't
"old news" to everyone... 

If net.micro is held in /usr/spool/net/micro, and net.micro.432 is held
in /usr/spool/net/micro/432, where will article #432 in net.micro be held?

	Paul Vixie
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