Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!rjwhite
From: rjwhite@watmath.waterloo.edu (RJ White)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Need help translating .newsrc files
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Date: 4 Feb 89 00:11:44 GMT
References: <1390@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>
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In article <1390@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
	Has anybody done this?  I'd like tips, utilities, or whatever.
	This host uses NDBM history, while the server uses USG history.

yeh, i have for BSD 4.x systems.  Its big, ugly and i hate it cause
billions of warts have been added on since I originally wrote it
(wait till you switch from one NNTP server to another...) but it was worth
it given that I've had to do this on about 20 systems which represent
thousands of users that would lynch me if they ended up with bogus .newsrc
files.   I don't know what a USG history file looks like.  Shouldn't take
much to change.  i hope...

I'm mailing it to you.  If anyone else interested, let me know.
	-rj

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