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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Looking for dbm
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Date: 11 Jan 89 16:23:55 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <376@frksyv.UUCP> frk@frksyv.UUCP (Frank Korzeniewski) writes:
: I have rebuilt news with it and it created lots of tmp files instead of
: entering the articles in the new dirs. looking over the code, the dbm init
: routine does not create the "history.pag" index file if it does not exist.
: YOU must do this and then it all works.

What I did was to delete my old history directory and run expire -r.
That created a new set of history files. BTW, this dbminit routine is
just following its spec: the dbm routines are defined to not create
those files.

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Bill
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