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From: wytten@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Dale R. Wyttenbach)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problem with expire
Keywords: expire
Message-ID: <9617@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 88 20:11:58 GMT
References: <542@dms.UUCP>
Reply-To: news@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dale R. Wyttenbach)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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In article <542@dms.UUCP> morris@dms.UUCP (Jim Morris) writes:
>
>Can anyone tell me why I get the following error message fairly frequently:
>
>	expire: Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT"
>
>when expire runs.

I have this problem, too, and I never saw a response to this posting.

We recently went from a VAX 11/780 and 4.3 BSD to a Sequent S27 and DYNIX
3.0.12.  I don't remember if I was having the '31 Dec 69' problem on the
VAX.  

umn-cs is running 2.11 news, albeit sort of lamely right now.  DYNIX is 
*based* on 4.2 BSD, but I doubt if I have everything defined correctly in
the Makefile and include files.  (This was my first news install, and I found
the localize.sh script worthless, at least in my case)  (I wanted to say
something stronger about localize.sh, but I didn't want to offend anyone)

How much has TMN-Netnews been tested?  Could it be substituted for 2.11
without much affect on the end-user?  

Dale Wyttenbach
{wytten,news}@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
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